The year is 1125, a full thirty years after the First Crusade was called for Jerusalem and brave, faithful souls took up the sword to liberate the holy land.
While they succeeded in their goal of pushing back the Turkish Sultanates, this brought on a resurgence in both the Empire of Eastern Rome - who found a groundswell of support from a popular uprising and his own generals, using the Crusaders as a distraction to reclaim much of Anatolia - and the Fatimid Caliphate, whose famous general Nassor reclaimed Mecca for his liege.
Sunni Islam's loss of Mecca has provoked a response - the disparate factions who yet make their homes in Northern Africa and Iberia have put aside their differences in order to lead a push to the east under an ambitious young warrior calling himself the new Caliph.
This move has understandably shaken the Christian rulers of Europe. A united Sunni Caliphate - should it succeed in taking all of northern Africa and reclaiming Mecca - would pose a threat not just to the newly-minted Crusader States, but to all of Christendom.
Thus, in a controversial act of Papal authority, the newly elected Pope Urchin II declared the Iberian Reconquest to be a holy crusade, encouraging warriors from the world over to march upon the Mohammedan occupier and to bring salvation to those ruling there.
Deus Vult!
>>46522787
Moor lives matter. Alhambra stays islamic!
>>46522787
This is an alternate-history nation builder with an emphasis on the characters that take part in this holy war. It is a sequel to the original Crusade Builder, whose archive you can find at http://archive.4plebs.org/tg/search/subject/Crusade%20Builder/ if you are interested.
However, knowledge of the minutiae of those threads are not necessary to participate. History has yet to diverge significantly from history, with the cracks only just starting to show.
You take on the role of a warlord of some description. Whether you intend to make a name, carve out a kingdom, serve your ruler faithfully or defend your home, you must have come from somewhere.
To play, fill in the following character sheet:
Name: [What you are called]
Culture: [Your country of origin]
Fluff: [What were you known for before the reconquest? Why are you taking part?]
Religion: [Are you a triumphant Catholic? A resurgent eastern Orthodox? A beleaguered Sunni or even some kind of Pagan?]
Colour: [How do you want to be represented on the map?]
Transit: [How did you arrive in Iberia? Did you march? Did you sail? Or are you simply defending your home?]
>>46522815
You can chat with other players in the IRC at http://client00.chat.mibbit.com/?channel=%23Nation&server=irc.mibbit.net
Every turn, you should describe two actions in your post under your stat block, and roll dice+2d100 to determine how successful they were.
Name: Azka'hail abu-Dakar
Culture: Moorish
Fluff: Mercenary Captain, seeks peace for these lands and knows the Catholic monarchs will never allow it.
Religion: Sunni
Colour: Royal Purple
Transit: Lived Here
>>46522815
Name: Mustafa Ibn-Muhammed
Culture: South Iberia, City of Grenada
Fluff: Landowner around Grenada, earned his stripes (and land) during the original Conquista of Iberia
Religion: Proud Muslim
Colour: Pink
Transit: Defending Grenada from the reconquista.Do i have to chat with people?
>>46522930
>Do i have to chat with people?
No, but it can be fun and beneficial.
But even if you don't, grab a name so that you're easier to recognise, Anon.
>>46523048
Rogier that
>>46522815
Name: Prince Florian of Antalya
Culture: Antalyan
Fluff: During the first crusade James of Scotland conquered the southern shores of Anatolia and took the city of Antalya as his seat of power. Being blocked in by the Byzantine empire by land the nation focused inward, and partially thanks to the tolerance of King James, became a center of the sciences and arts.
Florian is the third prince of Antalya, and as such doesnt expect to inherit much from his father. As such he set off with some me to join the reconquista to claim some land for Antalya and himself.
Religion: Orthodox
Colour: Blue
Transit: Sail
>>46522872
Military: 50 mounted, 200 men at arms, 500 rabble.
Bonuses: [Is it really so much to Azk?] As a man whose main concern is to fight for peace, Azka'hail gets a bonus of +5 to defensive combat rolls and +5 to diplomacy when negotiating truces.
>>46522930
Military: 50 mounted, 200 men at arms, 500 rabble.
Bonuses: [Never Gets Old] Mustafa claims to have seen the original conquest more than four hundred years ago. Most write him off as a harmless lunatic, but others are suspicious of how he never seems to visibly age.
>>46523282
Military: 75 mounted, 300 men at arms, 250 rabble.
Bonuses: [Antalyan Prince] Raised in a land of peace and progress, Florian gets +5 on literally anything that does not involve war or soldiers.
>>46522787
Name: Crispinus Tullus Scruffitius
Culture: Tripoli (of polish/lebanese descent)
Fluff:http://pastebin.com/TgfXCX6M
Religion: Catholic
Colour: Orange - the Classic Color
Transit: Marching Southwest from Southern Germany
Rolled 18, 45 = 63 (2d100)
>>46523496
Name: Mustafa Ibn-Muhammed
Culture: South Iberia, City of Grenada
Fluff: Landowner around Grenada, earned his stripes (and land) during the original Conquista of Iberia
Religion: Proud Muslim
Colour: Pink
Transit: Defending Grenada from the reconquista.
Military: 50 mounted, 200 men at arms, 500 rabble.
Bonuses: [Never Gets Old] Mustafa claims to have seen the original conquest more than four hundred years ago. Most write him off as a harmless lunatic, but others are suspicious of how he never seems to visibly age.
1) make sure city defences are up to standards
2) Keep trading fleets active
>>46523519
and appropriate music for a crusade
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhIExMmeBQ4&nohtml5=False
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mAeJYk36Kg&nohtml5=False
Rolled 10, 19 = 29 (2d100)
>>46523496
Name: Prince Florian of Antalya
Culture: Antalyan
Fluff: During the first crusade James of Scotland conquered the southern shores of Anatolia and took the city of Antalya as his seat of power. Being blocked in by the Byzantine empire by land the nation focused inward, and partially thanks to the tolerance of King James, became a center of the sciences and arts.
Florian is the third prince of Antalya, and as such doesnt expect to inherit much from his father. As such he set off with some me to join the reconquista to claim some land for Antalya and himself.
Religion: Orthodox
Colour: Blue
Transit: Sail
Military: 75 mounted, 300 men at arms, 250 rabble.
Bonuses: [Antalyan Prince] Raised in a land of peace and progress, Florian gets +5 on literally anything that does not involve war or soldiers.
1. Send out scouts, see what is around our landing site.
2. Convert the boats into resources to be used later.
Name: Jacob
Culture: Iberian Jew
Fluff: Belives that the christians derserive thier land back and will fight for the true owners of their lands
Religion: Jewish
Color: red
Transit: Lives here
>>46523670
On second thought fighting the reconquesta sounds fun can i change my back story
>>46523698
Ya can till he gives you stats friendo, so go right ahead
>>46523670
I know that the jews will be persecuted under chirstian rule. So i fight for my people
Rolled 87, 56 = 143 (2d100)
Name: Azka'hail abu-Dakar
Culture: Moorish
Fluff: Mercenary Captain, seeks peace for these lands and knows the Catholic monarchs will never allow it.
Religion: Sunni
Colour: Royal Purple
Military: 50 mounted, 200 men at arms, 500 rabble.
Bonuses: [Is it really so much to Azk?] As a man whose main concern is to fight for peace, Azka'hail gets a bonus of +5 to defensive combat rolls and +5 to diplomacy when negotiating truces.
1. Shore up our defenses. The heathens pour out from the north to bolster our foes and we must be ready.
2. Reach out to the Jews for financial support. Remind them of our faiths' history together, coming to their aide against the Gothic persecution and our even-handed rule over them (when compared to what the Christians have been known to do to Jews).
>>46523731
feel free to join the game chat newfiendo
https://client00.chat.mibbit.com/?channel=%23Nation&server=irc.mibbit.net
>>46523519
Military: 50 mounted, 200 men at arms, 500 rabble.
Bonuses: [Pauper Prince] An ambitious young man denied his birthright and trained for warfare by holy men, Crispinus gets +5 to all combat rolls.
>>46523567
The defences seem the same as they always do. It's hard to say whether they would hold if the entirety of the Christian world came crashing down on them right now, but the same could be said of any city.
At least trade doesn't seem to be suffering terribly yet.
+1 [Chest of Wealth] Can be expended for a small bonus to another roll, or to hire mercenaries.
>>46523640
The landing site just south of the duchy of Barcelona seems fairly barren and empty - and while the men work hard to convert the boats into useful tools, the net gain of supplies is not great as the food the men brought with them starts to run low.
>>46523670
>>46523698
>>46523731
Military: 50 mounted, 200 men at arms, 500 rabble.
Bonuses: [Oy vey!] Being of uncertain loyalties, Jacob can probably get along with either side in this conflict - but is beloved by neither.
>>46523827
You strike stakes around your camp in preparation for war, and recruit a few fresh faces into your band as hopeful proof against the Christian invaders. It should help if they attack you here, but if they go elsewhere it will be of little use.
The jews are all too happy to offer you a loan. You may take from two or even four [Chests of Wealth] now, so long as you commit to eventually paying back three for every two you take.
+200 rabble
[Optional] +2/4 [Chest of Wealth] Can be expended for a small bonus to another roll, or to hire mercenaries.
Rolled 28, 3 = 31 (2d100)
1. Start training some rabble into real men at arms.
2. Offer positions as my vassal to fellow Sunnis on the borders of the Christian horde, citing my military superiority and defensive prowess as their best bet for surviving the coming swarm.
Name: Azka'hail abu-Dakar
Culture: Moorish
Fluff: Mercenary Captain, seeks peace for these lands and knows the Catholic monarchs will never allow it.
Religion: Sunni
Colour: Royal Purple
Military: 50 mounted, 200 men at arms, 700 rabble.
Bonuses: [Is it really so much to Azk?] As a man whose main concern is to fight for peace, Azka'hail gets a bonus of +5 to defensive combat rolls and +5 to diplomacy when negotiating truces.
[Optional] +2/4 [Chest of Wealth] Can be expended for a small bonus to another roll, or to hire mercenaries.
Rolled 50, 59 = 109 (2d100)
>>46523986
Name: Mustafa Ibn-Muhammed
Culture: South Iberia, City of Grenada
Fluff: Landowner around Grenada, earned his stripes (and land) during the original Conquista of Iberia
Religion: Proud Muslim
Colour: Pink
Transit: Defending Grenada from the reconquista.
Military: 50 mounted, 200 men at arms, 500 rabble.
Bonuses:
[Never Gets Old] Mustafa claims to have seen the original conquest more than four hundred years ago. Most write him off as a harmless lunatic, but others are suspicious of how he never seems to visibly age.
+1 [Chest of Wealth] Can be expended for a small bonus to another roll, or to hire mercenaries.
1,2) Try to whip up the people into a Jihad against the christan dogs
.
Bonuses: [Oy vey!] Being of uncertain loyalties, Jacob can probably get along with either side in this conflict - but is beloved by neither.
Dice+2d100
Train my rabble to shoot with bows
I also invest in the local aera's agriculture so i can feed my men better
P.s oh vey is yidddish not ladino
Ladino is what spanish jews speak
Rolled 21, 44 = 65 (2d100)
>>46523986
Name: Crispinus Tullus Scruffitius
Culture: Tripoli (of polish/lebanese descent)
Fluff: http://pastebin.com/GZmvmxHx
Religion: Catholic
Colour: Orange - the Classic Color
Transit: Marching Southwest from Southern Germany
Military: 50 mounted, 200 men at arms, 500 rabble.
Bonuses: [Pauper Prince] An ambitious young man denied his birthright and trained for warfare by holy men, Crispinus gets +5 to all combat rolls.
1. Lets not get to waste, continue the march southward to Heathen lands!
2. Along the way, see if any noble citizens or charitable nobles will give donations to our crusading party.
Rolled 93, 18 = 111 (2d100)
>>46524110
Rolled 34, 48 = 82 (2d100)
>>46524070
bumpo
Test
>>46524070
>P.s oh vey is yidddish not ladino
>Ladino is what spanish jews speak
No entyendo, lo syento
>>46524206
>No entyendo, lo syento
Yiddish is the dilect of german jews
Ladino is the dilect of spanish jew
>>46524314
Oy vey is a german frase
Name: Jacob
Culture: Iberian Jew
Fluff: Belives that the christians will pericute the jew so he fightd for his poeple
Religion: Jewish
Color: red
Transit: Lives here
Military: 50 mounted, 200 men at arms, 500 rabble.
Bonuses: [Oy vey!] Being of uncertain loyalties, Jacob can probably get along with either side in this conflict - but is beloved by neither.
Posting sheet
Rolled 50, 83 = 133 (2d100)
Name: Prince Florian of Antalya
Culture: Antalyan
Fluff: During the first crusade James of Scotland conquered the southern shores of Anatolia and took the city of Antalya as his seat of power. Being blocked in by the Byzantine empire by land the nation focused inward, and partially thanks to the tolerance of King James, became a center of the sciences and arts.
Florian is the third prince of Antalya, and as such doesnt expect to inherit much from his father. As such he set off with some me to join the reconquista to claim some land for Antalya and himself.
Religion: Orthodox
Colour: Blue
Transit: Sail
Military: 75 mounted, 300 men at arms, 250 rabble.
Bonuses: [Antalyan Prince] Raised in a land of peace and progress, Florian gets +5 on literally anything that does not involve war or soldiers.
1. Move South into dog mudslide lands
2. Gather food for the men
>>46524027
The training is fairly dismal to start with as your least experienced underlings get situated with the rest of the men - but a few seem to pick up the basics of combat.
The local sheikhs and emirs, however, turn you away without an audience - and from what you can gather they consider your arrogance unbecoming when they say you're "Just a mercenary" and "Have no reason to think highly of yourself."
+14 men at arms, -14 rabble
>>46524059
With word now circulating that the christian dogs are mustering for an assault on your home, it's a simple matter to whip your people in a militaristic fervour.
+350 rabble
>>46524070
>>46524121
>>46524396
Your rabble quickly grasp the use of bows, and when properly outfitted they become perfectly adequate, serviceable soldiers - but unfortunately, the cost of equipping them means that you aren't liquid enough to invest in the local agriculture.
+138 men at arms, -138 rabble
>>46524112
The trip is slow going, almost tortuous - but you just about pull through, and put some meagre distance under your feet. You pass through the duchy of Barcelona, and reach the borders of Moorish Iberia.
As you pass by a few towns and villages there seems to be little to offer, but eventually you bring in donations of enough coins of varying denominations to fill a single chest.
+1 [Chest of Wealth] Can be expended for a small bonus to another roll, or to hire mercenaries.
>>46524604
Florian leads his men valiantly southward, along the coast - and they come across more fertile land in due time. They hunt and harvest what they can, and even find an opportunity to loot a local settlement if you permit it.
With their food supplies well replenished, the men are in high spirits.
[Optional] If you loot, feel free to add +2 [Chest of Wealth] Can be expended for a small bonus to another roll, or to hire mercenaries.
Rolled 53, 2 = 55 (2d100)
Name: Jacob
Culture: Iberian Jew
Fluff: Belives that the christians will pericute the jew so he fightd for his poeple
Religion: Jewish
Color: red
Transit: Lives here
Military: 50 mounted, 338 men at arms, 362 rabble.
Bonuses: [Oy vey!] Being of uncertain loyalties, Jacob can probably get along with either side in this conflict - but is beloved by neither.
1 first off i will invest into agricultural not olny will it feed the troops but raise loyalties in thr pesants
2 train fifty horsemen
Rolled 33, 95 = 128 (2d100)
1. Spend 2 [Chests of Wealth] training and equipping Men at Arms into Mounted Men.
2. Spend the other 2 [Chests of Wealth] establishing my legitimacy. Marry some disenfranchised noble women, attract prestigious courtiers, and put on a show of wealth.
Name: Azka'hail abu-Dakar
Culture: Moorish
Fluff: Mercenary Captain, seeks peace for these lands and knows the Catholic monarchs will never allow it.
Religion: Sunni
Colour: Royal Purple
Military: 50 mounted, 214 men at arms, 686 rabble.
Bonuses: [Is it really so much to Azk?] As a man whose main concern is to fight for peace, Azka'hail gets a bonus of +5 to defensive combat rolls and +5 to diplomacy when negotiating truces.
Rolled 17, 24 = 41 (2d100)
>>46524726
Name: Mustafa Ibn-Muhammed
Culture: South Iberia, City of Grenada
Fluff: Landowner around Grenada, earned his stripes (and land) during the original Conquista of Iberia
Religion: Proud Muslim
Colour: Pink
Transit: Defending Grenada from the reconquista.
Military: 50 mounted, 200 men at arms, 850 rabble.
Bonuses:
[Never Gets Old] Mustafa claims to have seen the original conquest more than four hundred years ago. Most write him off as a harmless lunatic, but others are suspicious of how he never seems to visibly age.
+1 [Chest of Wealth] Can be expended for a small bonus to another roll, or to hire mercenaries.
1) Set up outposts, warning me of aproaching forces
2) Speak with local imams about the christian infestation. Try to get them to help me somehow
Rolled 25, 23 = 48 (2d100)
>>46524726
Name: Crispinus Tullus Scruffitius
Culture: Tripoli (of polish/lebanese descent)
Fluff: http://pastebin.com/GZmvmxHx
Religion: Catholic
Colour: Orange - the Classic Color
Transit: Marching Southwest from Southern Germany
Military: 50 mounted, 200 men at arms, 500 rabble.
Bonuses: [Pauper Prince] An ambitious young man denied his birthright and trained for warfare by holy men, Crispinus gets +5 to all combat rolls.
+1 [Chest of Wealth]
1. Lets push further south into Moor lands and establish a beach head for other crusading parties to pass though.
2. But before that, lets use this chest to hire some extra muscle, how about some spearman if any are around.
>>46524953
second action: +1 chest of wealth
>>46523731
You understand that Jews and Christians are currently being persecuted under Muslim rule, right?
Name: Ungodala
Culture: Iberia
Fluff: Raised from birth to fight for his home, Ungodala has recieved permission to protect it
Religion: lberian
Colour: Purple
Transit: March
>>46524978
Under islamic rule in the middle ages the jews just had to pay a tax compared with forced conversion or death. I'm not saying that i like the muslims but durring this time period it's my best option
>>46524978
bruh, this is a game, not a political discussion
Rolled 15, 93 = 108 (2d100)
Name: Prince Florian of Antalya
Culture: Antalyan
Fluff: During the first crusade James of Scotland conquered the southern shores of Anatolia and took the city of Antalya as his seat of power. Being blocked in by the Byzantine empire by land the nation focused inward, and partially thanks to the tolerance of King James, became a center of the sciences and arts.
Florian is the third prince of Antalya, and as such doesnt expect to inherit much from his father. As such he set off with some me to join the reconquista to claim some land for Antalya and himself.
Religion: Orthodox
Colour: Blue
Transit: Sail
Military: 75 mounted, 300 men at arms, 250 rabble.
Bonuses: [Antalyan Prince] Raised in a land of peace and progress, Florian gets +5 on literally anything that does not involve war or soldiers.
1/2. No looting, we are a civilized lot. Scout instead, find the lay of the heathen land.
>>46522815
Name: Mattew Fores
Culture: Holy Roman Empire
Fluff: Second son of a German family, Matthew trained for years with the bow from horseback. An expert marksman on foot or horse, Matthew won a small bit of fame in a tourney held by the Duke of Masovia. His three signature arrows, forest green shafts with swan fletchings, managed to strike the center ring from 400 yards. Not particularly suited for melee combat, due to his short statue, Matthew fights with a short sword and saxe only when absolutely necessary. Otherwise, his bow is his primary weapon. The ability to fire multiple shafts in the span of seconds has been engrained through years of practice, each one carrying a man's life in it's barbed steel head.
The call for the reconquest of the Iberian peninsula struck the young man hard, and with his brother set to inherit what little holdings the family owns, there was nothing to hold Matthew back. Astride his faithful horse Connam, with his bow and wits as armaments, Matthew set off to free the Holy Land.
Religion: Catholic
Colour: Purple
Transit: Riding my trusty steed Connam
>>46522815
>Name: Philaretos Photius
>Culture: Greek/Imperial with Visigothic Heritage
>Fluff: Philaretos is the son of Uriel Photius, who was an agent of the Emperor in the early Crusade of the East. He was recalled due to the Byzantine politics of the Capital. Uriel eventually married a Visigothic noblewoman whose family fled Spain in the more recent conquests. With the Emperor taking a renewed interest in the West, the Photius family has sent Philaretos, trained for war and administration, to Spain to assist Christendom in reclaiming Hispania - under the banner of the Empire, of course.
>Religion: Orthodox
>Colour: Blue and Gold if possible
>Transit: Sailed.
>>46524800
Now that your men are properly equipped, you set to work ensuring that they are well fed and loyal.
The local community praises your efforts, and your men are only too glad to cheer you when you lead them - but your efforts to train horsemen are stymied by the incredible task of finding horses not being used for farming, and getting the equipment together that a mounted warrior would expect as their due proves a headache.
>>46524826
Though outfitting mounted warriors is a mighty task, it is helped along by the wealth used to find them the mounts, weapons and training they need, supplementing your elite cavalry contingent.
You also manage to find a local lordling down enough on his luck that he is happy to marry you to one of his daughters in exchange for a quick infusion of gold - and you use this fairly prestigious marriage to garner the respect of the local lords, envoys from the lord who previously spurned your services now coming to you to beg audience.
>>46524840
Things move slowly down here in the south. Though young men are more than happy to join your banner, such things are always true. The local imams still doubt the ability of any so-called crusading forces, and you find your building projects for watchtowers being blocked by local rivals who don't want you to have better information than them on the comings and goings of the roads around Granada.
>>46524953
Your scouts are all rebuffed from muslim lands, and you can find no safe route deeper southward. It's frustrating, but for now you have to give up, or risk losing all your men.
You also manage to find a few mercenary spearmen - but perhaps not quite as many as you might have hoped.
+60 men at arms
>>46525005
Military: 50 mounted, 200 men at arms, 500 rabble.
Bonuses: [Blessed Protector] A native Sunni muslim, Ungodala knows how to navigate and protect his home. He receives +5 to defensive combat and can travel further.
>>46525583
>>46525095
Valencia is a short march to the south, a well fortified port city - but taking it with what few men you possess would be very difficult.
>>46525322
Military: 50 mounted, 200 men at arms, 500 rabble.
Bonuses: [Robin Who?] Mattew is a consummate archer, and is deadly effective when able to engage at range and direct his men to do likewise. When fighting alongside an ally willing to absorb the brunt of the melee fighting, Mattew gets +10 in battle - and his ally gets +5.
>>46525344
Military: 50 mounted, 200 men at arms, 500 rabble.
Bonuses: [Byzantine Clerk] Trained for wartime administration, Philaretos can easily establish supply lines, baggage trains and other logistics for new troops, making recruitment easier. +5 to recruitment.
>>46524826
>>46525583
>supplementing your elite cavalry contingent.
+33 mounted
Rolled 41, 10 = 51 (2d100)
Name: Jacob
Culture: Iberian Jew
Fluff: Belives that the christians will pericute the jew so he fightd for his poeple
Religion: Jewish
Color: red
Transit: Lives here
Military: 50 mounted, 338 men at arms, 362 rabble.
Bonuses: [Oy vey!] Being of uncertain loyalties, Jacob can probably get along with either side in this conflict - but is beloved by neither.
1 biuld improvements to the local area such as grian stores and fix roads and feed the poor
2 claim the region as an autonomous province
Rolled 20, 12 = 32 (2d100)
>>46525583
Name: Mustafa Ibn-Muhammed
Culture: South Iberia, City of Grenada
Fluff: Landowner around Grenada, earned his stripes (and land) during the original Conquista of Iberia
Religion: Proud Muslim
Colour: Pink
Transit: Defending Grenada from the reconquista.
Military: 50 mounted, 200 men at arms, 850 rabble.
Bonuses:
[Never Gets Old] Mustafa claims to have seen the original conquest more than four hundred years ago. Most write him off as a harmless lunatic, but others are suspicious of how he never seems to visibly age.
1) Blockaded at all points! This will not stand! Send out scouts and spies to learn more about these other local warlords.
2) I will prove my piety to the imams. I will fund the building of mosques and the glorification of Allah. (Use [Chest of Wealth])
Rolled 64, 92 = 156 (2d100)
1. Continue to whip our Rabble into shape so they may truly be called Men-at-Arms. We'll need them ready for when the war comes.
2. Graciously accept to their requests for audience with the local nobility. Once more offer my protection in return for their loyalty, hopefully getting some cashflow out of this t'begin paying back Les Merchantes.
Name: Azka'hail abu-Dakar
Culture: Moorish
Fluff: Mercenary Captain, seeks peace for these lands and knows the Catholic monarchs will never allow it.
Religion: Sunni
Colour: Royal Purple
Military: 83 mounted, 214 men at arms, 686 rabble.
Bonuses: [Is it really so much to Azk?] As a man whose main concern is to fight for peace, Azka'hail gets a bonus of +5 to defensive combat rolls and +5 to diplomacy when negotiating truces.
Rolled 73, 46 = 119 (2d100)
>>46525583
Name: Crispinus Tullus Scruffitius
Culture: Tripoli (of polish/lebanese descent)
Fluff: http://pastebin.com/GZmvmxHx
Religion: Catholic
Colour: Orange - the Classic Color
Transit: Marching Southwest from Southern Germany
Military: 50 mounted, 260 men at arms, 500 rabble.
Bonuses: [Pauper Prince] An ambitious young man denied his birthright and trained for warfare by holy men, Crispinus gets +5 to all combat rolls.
1. Bah, if the lands are too strong then the men must become stronger. Let us train the rabble then!
2. Surely there must be some men here in Barcelona that wish to see the Moorish dog driven from rightful catholic lands! Let us recruit some hardy men to fight for us!
>>46525583
Name: Ungodala
Culture: Iberia
Fluff: Raised from birth to fight for his home, Ungodala has recieved permission to protect it
Religion: lberian
Colour: Purple
Transit: March
Military: 50 mounted, 200 men at arms, 500 rabble.
Bonuses: [Blessed Protector] A native Sunni muslim, Ungodala knows how to navigate and protect his home. He receives +5 to defensive combat and can travel further.
1,2. Brothers the christian heretics wish to overthrow the true faith! We must fight for Allah so as to not lose our land! Join me, and we shall turn Iberia into a city worthy of glory on par with Jerusalem!
>Recruit more zealous fighters
Rolled 84, 43 = 127 (2d100)
>>46525610
Minorca.
Taken from the Empire by the so-called Caliphate of Corbaba in 903, the island had several natural harbors that would prove a useful base for raiding and launching invasions without depending upon Western Kings.
His father had argued for landing onto Hispania proper, but Philaretos' arguments about helping to secure the seas had weight to them.
When he landed, he planted the Standard of the Empire into the sands. He would see the conquest of this isle.
1. Send demands to the towns and settlements to submit, those who fight will forfeit their lives, those who leave, their treasures. Moors who stay may be permitted, for now - if they give half their treasures.
2. There are still Christians here on Minorca, try to recruit them for the reconquest of these islands.
Rolled 50, 12 = 62 (2d100)
>>46525893
>>46525959
>Name: Philaretos Photius
>Culture: Greek/Imperial with Visigothic Heritage
>Fluff: Philaretos is the son of Uriel Photius, who was an agent of the Emperor in the early Crusade of the East. He was recalled due to the Byzantine politics of the Capital. Uriel eventually married a Visigothic noblewoman whose family fled Spain in the more recent conquests. With the Emperor taking a renewed interest in the West, the Photius family has sent Philaretos, trained for war and administration, to Spain to assist Christendom in reclaiming Hispania - under the banner of the Empire, of course.
>Religion: Orthodox
>Colour: Blue and Gold if possible
>Transit: Sailed.
Military: 50 mounted, 200 men at arms, 500 rabble.
Bonuses: [Byzantine Clerk] Trained for wartime administration, Philaretos can easily establish supply lines, baggage trains and other logistics for new troops, making recruitment easier. +5 to recruitment.
Forgot my stats.
Rolled 14, 16 = 30 (2d100)
>>46525610
>Name: Prince Florian of Antalya
>Culture: Antalyan
>Fluff: During the first crusade James of Scotland conquered the southern shores of Anatolia and took the city of Antalya as his seat of power. Being blocked in by the Byzantine empire by land the nation focused inward, and partially thanks to the tolerance of King James, became a center of the sciences and arts.
>Florian is the third prince of Antalya, and as such doesnt expect to inherit much from his father. As such he set off with some me to join the reconquista to claim some land for Antalya and himself.
>Religion: Orthodox
>Colour: Blue
>Transit: Sail
>Military: 75 mounted, 300 men at arms, 250 rabble.
>Bonuses: [Antalyan Prince] Raised in a land of peace and progress, Florian gets +5 on literally anything that does not involve war or soldiers.
1/2. We must disguise ourselves as women and enter the city!
Rolled 80, 69 = 149 (2d100)
>>46525610
Name: Mattew Fores
Culture: Holy Roman Empire
Fluff: Second son of a German family, Matthew trained for years with the bow from horseback. An expert marksman on foot or horse, Matthew won a small bit of fame in a tourney held by the Duke of Masovia. His three signature arrows, forest green shafts with swan fletchings, managed to strike the center ring from 400 yards. Not particularly suited for melee combat, due to his short statue, Matthew fights with a short sword and saxe only when absolutely necessary. Otherwise, his bow is his primary weapon. The ability to fire multiple shafts in the span of seconds has been engrained through years of practice, each one carrying a man's life in it's barbed steel head.
The call for the reconquest of the Iberian peninsula struck the young man hard, and with his brother set to inherit what little holdings the family owns, there was nothing to hold Matthew back. Astride his faithful horse Connam, with his bow and wits as armaments, Matthew set off to free the Holy Land.
Religion: Catholic
Colour: Purple
Transit: Riding my trusty steed Connam
Military: 50 mounted, 200 men at arms, 500 rabble.
Bonuses: [Robin Who?] Mattew is a consummate archer, and is deadly effective when able to engage at range and direct his men to do likewise. When fighting alongside an ally willing to absorb the brunt of the melee fighting, Mattew gets +10 in battle - and his ally gets +5
1) Check for Saracen towns nearby in need of purification
2) Seek out horses, owns by the Sacarens, to be taken for my men. Even if my infantry is not able to fight from horseback, they will surely prefer riding over marching.
Still room?
>>46526452
Sure.
>>46526452
Please become jewish i need a compatriot
>>46525666
The local area benefits greatly from your continued patronage, but when you suggest that you be allowed to rule it autonomously, the local Emir laughs you out of court without even stopping to properly consider the benefits you could bring to the region.
>>46525718
Your scouts return soon enough - after a fashion. Their heads are left outside one of your villages, with a note that says that Sheikh Ibrahim does not tolerate spies.
Despite the virtue of your soul, the building of a mosque is prevented by what seems to be a natural disaster - the ground chosen to build it upon was apparently unsteady, and after a month of work it collapsed to the ground, leaving little still standing.
>>46525770
Your men take to training much better now that they've had time to settle into the routines of their new military lives. As the month wears on, you are satisfied with two new regiments of spearmen.
These two new units may have shown how seriously you take preparing for the threat of a Christian invasion, as almost without reserve the petty local lords promise their loyalty to you, accepting you as the ruler of these lands north-west of christian-held Toledo - some even come bearing fine gifts.
+160 men at arms
-160 rabble
+2 [Chest of Wealth] Can be expended for a small bonus to another roll, or to hire mercenaries.
>>46525883
Your rabble train hard, and almost one for one you replace them from the local population of Barcelona, your ranks swelling with capable soldiers.
+210 men at arms
+1 rabble
>>46525893
>>46525984
While you draw some skeptical glances, you do indeed draw some zealous locals to your banner.
+250 rabble
>>46526059
You are turned away by sniggering guards - fortunately, the only thing hurt by the incident is your pride.
>>46526601
>>46525959
The submission of towns and villages across Minorca is secured surprisingly easily - many families mutely picking up sticks and leaving, and yet others remaining to work their lands as if nothing had even happened. The men are encouraged by this early sign of success, local christians start to flock to your banner, and the moderated looting of abandoned homes pulls in some money.
+2 [Chest of Wealth] Can be expended for a small bonus to another roll, or to hire mercenaries.
+210 rabble
>>46526203
The men make good time to the south in search of saracen towns, making it through the land of Barcelona and to the border with moorish Iberia - striking camp near another crusader's force, that appears to be training hard.
Ranging further, leading raids into Saracen territory, you do find a herd of horses - surprisingly worthwhile as both steeds and trading goods, making off with the lot of them before an armed response has time to come down upon you.
>>46522815
Name: Philippe Pelletier
Culture: French with some Iberian Heritage
Fluff: Being the young 3rd son of a minor french nobleman, Phillippe has little to look forwards to in way of inheritance. Looking to make a name for himself, he looks south towards the crusade as a means to acquire land and glory. Trained to be a proper french knight, he is skilled with sword lance and riding. With the blessing of his father him and a small retainer set out to drum up support in the french countryside as they make their way to Iberia
Religion: Catholic
Colour: Yellow
Transit: Currently marching south along the west coast of france
Name: Ulfric
Culture: East Rome
Fluff: the son of a Varagian guard and a maid Ulfric served under his father for a time in the Guard before buying an officers title in the royal army. With his new command he has been ordered to secure the western Mediterrian isles for the empire.
Religion:Pagan
Colour: Black
Transit: Ulfric travels by sea with a small detachment of the Imperial fleet
Rolled 9, 55 = 64 (2d100)
>>46526601
Name: Jacob
Culture: Iberian Jew
Fluff: Belives that the christians will pericute the jew so he fightd for his poeple
Religion: Jewish
Color: red
Transit: Lives here
Military: 50 mounted, 338 men at arms, 362 rabble.
Bonuses: [Oy vey!] Being of uncertain loyalties, Jacob can probably get along with either side in this conflict - but is beloved by neither.
1 train more rabble
2 begin to breed war horses
3 etempt to show the benifits of my rule to the court
Rolled 56, 84 = 140 (2d100)
>>46526601
1. Continue turning Rabble into Men-at-Arms.
2. Now that I'm a man of status and no mere captain I must concern myself with some more realm-ly affairs. Work to cultivate trade lanes both with fellow Muslims and neighbouring Toldeo--after all, bonds of business hurt both sides to sever, and some borderlings may yet be made to see reason in sitting this one out
Name: Azka'hail abu-Dakar
Culture: Moorish
Fluff: Mercenary Captain, seeks peace for these lands and knows the Catholic monarchs will never allow it.
Religion: Sunni
Colour: Royal Purple
Military: 83 mounted, 374 men at arms, 526 rabble.
Bonuses: [Is it really so much to Azk?] As a man whose main concern is to fight for peace, Azka'hail gets a bonus of +5 to defensive combat rolls and +5 to diplomacy when negotiating truces.
2 [Chests of Wealth] *earmarked for repaying Jews
>>46526700
How much do the people love me
Rolled 91, 35 = 126 (2d100)
>>46526625
>Name: Philaretos Photius
>Culture: Greek/Imperial with Visigothic Heritage
>Fluff: Philaretos is the son of Uriel Photius, who was an agent of the Emperor in the early Crusade of the East. He was recalled due to the Byzantine politics of the Capital. Uriel eventually married a Visigothic noblewoman whose family fled Spain in the more recent conquests. With the Emperor taking a renewed interest in the West, the Photius family has sent Philaretos, trained for war and administration, to Spain to assist Christendom in reclaiming Hispania - under the banner of the Empire, of course.
>Religion: Orthodox
>Colour: Blue and Gold if possible
>Transit: Sailed.
Military: 50 mounted, 200 men at arms, 710 rabble.
Resources: 2 [Chests of Wealth]
Bonuses: [Byzantine Clerk] Trained for wartime administration, Philaretos can easily establish supply lines, baggage trains and other logistics for new troops, making recruitment easier. +5 to recruitment.
1. Take the military and complete the conquest of the Western half of Minorca. Give those living the same terms as before.
2. Construct a proper training grounds in Mahon (capital of Minorca and the largest city, already under my contorl). The Rabble need to be properly trained in how to fight.
Rolled 79, 42 = 121 (2d100)
>>46526601
Name: Mustafa Ibn-Muhammed
Culture: South Iberia, City of Grenada
Fluff: Landowner around Grenada, earned his stripes (and land) during the original Conquista of Iberia
Religion: Proud Muslim
Colour: Pink
Transit: Defending Grenada from the reconquista.
Military: 50 mounted, 200 men at arms, 850 rabble.
Bonuses:
[Never Gets Old] Mustafa claims to have seen the original conquest more than four hundred years ago. Most write him off as a harmless lunatic, but others are suspicious of how he never seems to visibly age.
This will not stand! Defied at every turn!
1) Raise troops. Improve troops. An army I shall have
2) Find me everything on Sheikh Ibrahim. This disgrace of a man shall soon know regret.
Rolled 36, 23 = 59 (2d100)
Name: Crispinus Tullus Scruffitius
Culture: Tripoli (of polish/lebanese descent)
Fluff: http://pastebin.com/GZmvmxHx
Religion: Catholic
Colour: Orange - the Classic Color
Transit: Marching Southwest from Southern Germany
Military: 50 mounted, 470 men at arms, 501 rabble.
Bonuses: [Pauper Prince] An ambitious young man denied his birthright and trained for warfare by holy men, Crispinus gets +5 to all combat rolls.
1. Good! Good! At this rate the heathen shall fall before this, my father's blade. It has been too long since it has tasted the blood of the non-believer. But soldiers only do not an army make, we'll need siege weapons as well, mighty Trebuchets to knock down the Heathen's walls!
2. If the people are so eager to take back their lands from the Child-fuckers of the South, then why stop taking them in? I won't, so let the men of Barcelona come unto me so that we may reclaim this land in the name of Christendom!
Rolled 15, 58 = 73 (2d100)
>>46526625
Name: Mattew Fores
Culture: Holy Roman Empire
Fluff: Second son of a German family, Matthew trained for years with the bow from horseback. An expert marksman on foot or horse, Matthew won a small bit of fame in a tourney held by the Duke of Masovia. His three signature arrows, forest green shafts with swan fletchings, managed to strike the center ring from 400 yards. Not particularly suited for melee combat, due to his short statue, Matthew fights with a short sword and saxe only when absolutely necessary. Otherwise, his bow is his primary weapon. The ability to fire multiple shafts in the span of seconds has been engrained through years of practice, each one carrying a man's life in it's barbed steel head.
The call for the reconquest of the Iberian peninsula struck the young man hard, and with his brother set to inherit what little holdings the family owns, there was nothing to hold Matthew back. Astride his faithful horse Connam, with his bow and wits as armaments, Matthew set off to free the Holy Land.
Religion: Catholic
Colour: Purple
Transit: Riding my trusty steed Connam
Military: 50 mounted, 200 men at arms, 500 rabble
Bonuses: [Robin Who?] Mattew is a consummate archer, and is deadly effective when able to engage at range and direct his men to do likewise. When fighting alongside an ally willing to absorb the brunt of the melee fighting, Mattew gets +10 in battle - and his ally gets +5
1 ) Continue our progress into the Saracen tainted lands, our new mounts should help us make better time
2 ) Seek out more true Christians willing to fight off the heathens
>>46526797
Mustafa why must we obey the Shiek? Should we not declare our idypendace insteed of toiling under an unfair king.
Name: Mnguni Tshivhumbe
Culture: Middle Africa
Fluff: Mnguni, chieftain of chieftains, started life as chief of a tribe of the Bantu clans He was visited by a Sunni missionary who told him that if he submitted to Allah and his prophet Muhammad, he would unite all the Bantu tribes under his hut and become a King
Mnguni converted and set about on a war to unite all the tribes. It proved the missionaries words prophetic, and all tribes bowed before him and all spears laid low.
Now Mnguni follows a new prophecy. It was foretold that the destiny of the Bantu people is to wage a holy Jihad upon the land of Spain, and come to the aid of the Moors in the name of the Prophet and earn ultimate favor from Allah.
Mguni set the tribes march, and took with him warriors bearing a forest of spears more numerous than the blades grass upon the plains. We do not wear dresses of iron or fight upon horse, but we drink the rivers dry and the ground shakes with our feet and the air tremble with our yell. Those who live shall hunt and raise sons in these lands, those who are killed shall be called by Allah to a great hunt in the very gardens of Eden.
Religion: Sunni Convert
Colour: Black
Transit: A European regiment in heavy armor and wagon train can march 30 miles in a day before they need rest.
A Bantu regiment can run 50 miles in a day, and fight at a battle at the end of it. We did not march to the Mediterranean, we ran and followed shores of the great waters where the sun sleeps at night until reaching the land of the Moors and crossing into Spain by boat.
>>46526601
Name: Imaad ibin'Nassor
Culture: Fatimid Caliphate
Fluff: The First Crusades were remembered as a triumph, not only in Europe, but in Egypt as well. Through faith, perseverance, and the cunning of the Caliph's most trusted general, Nassor ibin'Akil, the Fatimids conquered Sinai, beat back numerous Crusader incursions, and took Mecca without a single drop of blood. Now, in the thirty years since, Nassor's third son-- third of five-- has proven himself a competent and capable general. Like father, like son, they say, and so the Caliph has given Imaad a very important task: safeguard the Western borders of the Caliphate. Break any resistance. Prove that his family line are loyal warriors all.
Religion: Shia Islam
Colour: Dark Blue.
Transit: Arrived by horse to the Caliphate's western border.
>>46527265
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Rolled 100, 41 = 141 (2d100)
Name: Ungodala
Culture: Iberia
Fluff: Raised from birth to fight for his home, Ungodala has recieved permission to protect it
Religion: lberian
Colour: Purple
Transit: March
Military: 50 mounted, 200 men at arms, 750 rabble.
Bonuses: [Blessed Protector] A native Sunni muslim, Ungodala knows how to navigate and protect his home. He receives +5 to defensive combat and can travel further.
1. Recruit men, good muslim men, strong of heart and of seed
2. Find the nearest available latrine and relive myself
>>46527482
>rolled a 100
>for someone else
Rolled 35, 27 = 62 (2d100)
>>46525610
Name: Prince Florian of Antalya
Culture: Antalyan
Fluff: During the first crusade James of Scotland conquered the southern shores of Anatolia and took the city of Antalya as his seat of power. Being blocked in by the Byzantine empire by land the nation focused inward, and partially thanks to the tolerance of King James, became a center of the sciences and arts.
Florian is the third prince of Antalya, and as such doesnt expect to inherit much from his father. As such he set off with some me to join the reconquista to claim some land for Antalya and himself.
Religion: Orthodox
Colour: Blue
Transit: Sail
Military: 75 mounted, 300 men at arms, 250 rabble.
Bonuses: [Antalyan Prince] Raised in a land of peace and progress, Florian gets +5 on literally anything that does not involve war or soldiers.
1&2. Begin recruiting men from the country side. There are always men willing to fight.
Name: Konstantinos Ibericos
Culture: Byzantine Greek
Fluff: Konstantinos' father served in the Thracesion Theme as a permanent cavalry officer, having been swept into the crusade for a short while at it's height, serving in the retinue of an Italian merchant. Konstantinos was naturally swept into this, and he grew up as the son of a rather confused Byzantine mercenary. He has, through poor luck, grown up in the assorted military camps of the Mediterranean and Levant. As the heir to his father's estate in Thrace, he returned to serve in the military of the empire for a short time, being eventually granted commission to lead a small expedition of theme men to Iberia to fight in their crusade,ostensibly as the Catholics had fought in the Crusade of the Byzantines. This situation has led to him traveling across the Mediterranean in a small Byzantine vessel with a small crew of sailors and some barely trained theme soldiers, not fit for the Tagmata, but not landed enough to serve in the upper class of the Themes.
Religion: Byzantine Orthodox, under the Patriarch of Antioch.
Colour: Purple, if it's available.
Transit: By ship, from Constantinople. The ship was not fitted with Greek fire, more suited to transporting grain.
>>46526651
Military: 75 mounted, 300 men at arms, 250 rabble.
Bonuses: [Fleur de Chevalerie] French Knights are famous across europe for being romantic heroes, unstoppable on the charge - one was even crowned King of Jerusalem - and Pillippe is counted among this historic number. His mounted troops are scarily effective on flat ground.
>>46526655
Military: 50 mounted, 200 men at arms, 500 rabble.
Bonuses: [Son of Varangia] The varagians are known as vicious and capable warriors, famously favoured by Eastern Emperors as bodyguards. +10 to combat when attacking.
>>46526700
The rabble, alas, have taken to raucous protest at the local rulers being so eager to dismiss your proposals, and it leaves little time for them to train.
However, efforts to breed war horses meet with moderate success - and you feel like the next time you try to outfit a band of mounted troops, you will be met with much improved results.
>>46526710
The men train heartily, and you look over their drilling with a satisfied air.
As it turns out, after the announcement of this latest crusade goods from the across the Islamic world have become rarer and thus more expensive and desirable across Christendom. You approach certain Castillian lordlings, and a discrete trade arrangement is born by which you all make a considerable profit, bringing the benefits of commerce back home.
+120 men at arms
+4 [Chest of Wealth] Can be expended for a small bonus to another roll, or to hire mercenaries.
>>46526752
The conquest is lightning fast and surprisingly efficient, with only a handful of wounded and no actual casualties. As before, the abandonment of wealth swells your coffers, and you sit within mere months as undisputed master of Minorca.
The men are overheard making favourable comparisons to Imperial heroes from the first crusade.
The training is less successful - but perhaps the men can be forgiven for wanting to celebrate this conquest a while before getting straight back to work.
>>46527876
>>46526797
Furious, you muster what soldiers you can, and demand all the information your people can provide about your rival Ibrahim.
As it transpires, Ibrahim is a local lord whose lands border yours to the north, and he is a fat and indolent wastrel who tries to maintain a near-monopoly on trade heading further inland and north from Granada.
+80 men at arms
+120 rabble
>>46526886
It seems that the materials for siege weapons are hard to find and properly treat ut in the field without a contingent of engineers. It could be done, of course, but it'll take a little while longer yet.
And while you linger in place, the local people seem less and less inspired to join in your holy mission.
>>46526888
You skirmish with the saracens. Though the troops you encounter don't seem to outnumber you terribly, they know how to use the local terrain to their advantage, and are on your bowmen before you can loose more than a volley or two - and you're forced to retreat. Nevertheless, the people of Barcelona see that you are trying, and men young and old rush to join your efforts.
+210 rabble
>>46527070
Military: 2000 rabble.
Bonuses: [We Will Be Sultans] Taught of their manifest destiny by muslim imams, the tribal warriors of middle africa are powerful and relentless warriors - but lack much by way of equipment. Acquiring trained troops is harder for them, but their rabble is more effective.
>>46527265
Military: 50 mounted, 200 men at arms, 500 rabble.
Bonuses: [My father, and his father, and...] A legacy of brave service has endeared you to the Shia Caliph. +10 to rolls asking for support... within reason.
>>46527618
Though pickings are scarce this far from true Christian territory, you are able to drum up some small support.
+160 rabble
>>46522815
Name: Lord Otto von Saxon
Culture: Holy Roman Empire; Saxony
Fluff: A mid-ranking knight of the Knights Hospitaller, finding himself leading a small band of like-minded cavalrymen, Otto was purportedly sent in order to oversee the progress of his peers, as well as ferry a large surplus of supplies to both his fellow crusaders and any bereaved locals. Taking his responsibilities seriously, he and his men believe in fighting with a strange code of honor, defending the weak and innocent from harm, even extending some mercy to pagans and the misguided heretics. After all, are not all equal under God's eyes?
Religion: Catholic
Colour: Black and Yellow
Transit: Horseback, alongside wagons
>>46527895
>>46527687
Military: 50 mounted, 200 men at arms, 500 rabble.
Bonuses: [A Hand for a Hand] A loyal servant adherent to the Orthodox faith as preached by the Matriarch of Antioch, Konstantinos holds that the Catholics ought to be repaid for their assistance in saving the Empire. This endears him to them, even if they consider their faith borderline heretical. +10 diplomacy with Catholic nations.
Rolled 9, 72 = 81 (2d100)
Name: Jacob
Culture: Iberian Jew
Fluff: Belives that the christians will pericute the jew so he fightd for his poeple
Religion: Jewish
Color: red
Transit: Lives here
Military: 50 mounted, 338 men at arms, 362 rabble.
Bonuses: [Oy vey!] Being of uncertain loyalties, Jacob can probably get along with either side in this conflict - but is beloved by neither.
1horsemen for my fine army
2 gather funds
>>46527904
On second thought, revising colour to Battleship Gray, to make things easier.
>>46527941
Almost forgot
3 begin hiering beuricrats
>>46527904
>>46527959
Military: 75 mounted, 300 men at arms, 250 rabble.
Bonuses: [Warior of God] +10 to combat rolls against religious enemies. -10 to combat rolls against fellow Christians and civilised Pagans.
Alright, you lucky bastard, i'll sneak you in this turn.
Rolled 35, 91 = 126 (2d100)
>>46527876
Name: Prince Florian of Antalya
Culture: Antalyan
Fluff: During the first crusade James of Scotland conquered the southern shores of Anatolia and took the city of Antalya as his seat of power. Being blocked in by the Byzantine empire by land the nation focused inward, and partially thanks to the tolerance of King James, became a center of the sciences and arts.
Florian is the third prince of Antalya, and as such doesnt expect to inherit much from his father. As such he set off with some me to join the reconquista to claim some land for Antalya and himself.
Religion: Orthodox
Colour: Blue
Transit: Sail
Military: 75 mounted, 300 men at arms, 410 rabble.
Bonuses: [Antalyan Prince] Raised in a land of peace and progress, Florian gets +5 on literally anything that does not involve war or soldiers.
1. Begin training the rabble
2. Try to get some spies into the city of Valecia. +5?
>>46526601
>Name: Tariq Abd al-Aziz
>Culture: Andalusian, from Córdoba
>Fluff: Tariq's ancestors boast a proud history of service to Islam and to al-Andalus. His family claim service to the Ummayad dynasty and all it's successors, extending from before 718 and the conquest of al-Andalus from the Catholic Visigoths. From birth, Tariq has trained in the art of strategy and war, and honed a reputation as a soldier of merit and student of Islam, despite his youth. He aspires to defend his home, despite any cost, and to repel any would be invaders with extreme prejudice. He seeks to make his ancestors proud and win favor as a valiant and loyal servant to his liege, the Emir of Cordoba. With his youth, however, comes a thirst for glory that has yet to be properly sated.
>Religion: Sunni Islam
>Colour: Dark Green
>Transit: Located in Córdoba
Rolled 52, 31 = 83 (2d100)
>>46527876
Name: Ulfric
Culture: East Rome
Fluff: the son of a Varagian guard and a maid Ulfric served under his father for a time in the Guard before buying an officers title in the royal army. With his new command he has been ordered to secure the western Mediterrian isles for the empire.
Religion:Pagan
Colour: Black
Transit: Ulfric travels by sea with a small detachment of the Imperial fleet
Military: 50 mounted, 200 men at arms, 500 rabble.
Bonuses: [Son of Varangia] The varagians are known as vicious and capable warriors, famously favoured by Eastern Emperors as bodyguards. +10 to combat when attacking.
1. Seize the island
2. Train the Rabble
Rolled 53, 17 = 70 (2d100)
>>46527895
Name: Mnguni Tshivhumbe
Culture: Middle Africa
Fluff: Mnguni, leader of the great Bantu people, comes to bring the Bantu to glory or eternal afterlife in battle against the Infidels and support the muslim brothers.
Religion: Sunni Convert
Colour: Black
Transit: A European regiment in heavy armor and wagon train can march 30 miles in a day before they need rest.
A Bantu regiment can run 50 miles in a day, and fight at a battle at the end of it.
Military: 2000 rabble.
Bonuses: [We Will Be Sultans] Taught of their manifest destiny by muslim imams, the tribal warriors of middle africa are powerful and relentless warriors - but lack much by way of equipment. Acquiring trained troops is harder for them, but their rabble is more effective.
1. Train Forced March. Every tribesman is trained from birth to be swift that he may chase the antelope and gazelle, and spear it, and still have the strength to carry it home before the setting sun. We need not horses to run for us.
2. Move north. We have not yet reached the great sea and still are in Moorish lands, we must go to the aid of our brothers against the spaniard.
Rolled 81, 50 = 131 (2d100)
Name: Konstantinos Ibericos
Culture: Byzantine Greek
Fluff: Konstantinos' father served in the Thracesion Theme as a permanent cavalry officer, having been swept into the crusade for a short while at it's height, serving in the retinue of an Italian merchant. Konstantinos was naturally swept into this, and he grew up as the son of a rather confused Byzantine mercenary. He has, through poor luck, grown up in the assorted military camps of the Mediterranean and Levant. As the heir to his father's estate in Thrace, he returned to serve in the military of the empire for a short time, being eventually granted commission to lead a small expedition of theme men to Iberia to fight in their crusade,ostensibly as the Catholics had fought in the Crusade of the Byzantines. This situation has led to him traveling across the Mediterranean in a small Byzantine vessel with a small crew of sailors and some barely trained theme soldiers, not fit for the Tagmata, but not landed enough to serve in the upper class of the Themes.
Religion: Byzantine Orthodox, under the Patriarch of Antioch.
Colour: Purple, if it's available.
Transit: By ship, from Constantinople. The ship was not fitted with Greek fire, more suited to transporting grain.
Military: 50 mounted, 200 men at arms, 500 rabble.
Bonuses: [A Hand for a Hand] A loyal servant adherent to the Orthodox faith as preached by the Matriarch of Antioch, Konstantinos holds that the Catholics ought to be repaid for their assistance in saving the Empire. This endears him to them, even if they consider their faith borderline heretical. +10 diplomacy with Catholic nations.
Konstantinos disembarked onto the small island, and directed his men to leave the ship in a decently safe place, and to scout the island, looking for any settlements or military resistance.
1. Find a safe natural harbour for the ship, set up camp.
2. Scout out the Island for Arab or Muslim forces. Or any random villagers.
Rolled 1, 12 = 13 (2d100)
>>46527986
Name: Lord Otto von Saxon
Culture: Holy Roman Empire; Saxony
Fluff: A mid-ranking knight of the Knights Hospitaller, finding himself leading a small band of like-minded cavalrymen, Otto was purportedly sent in order to oversee the progress of his peers, as well as ferry a large surplus of supplies to both his fellow crusaders and any bereaved locals. Taking his responsibilities seriously, he and his men believe in fighting with a strange code of honor, defending the weak and innocent from harm, even extending some mercy to pagans and the misguided heretics. After all, are not all equal under God's eyes?
Religion: Catholic
Colour: Battleship Gray
Transit: Horseback, alongside wagons
Military: 75 mounted, 300 men at arms, 250 rabble.
Bonuses: [Warior of God] +10 to combat rolls against religious enemies. -10 to combat rolls against fellow Christians and civilised Pagans.
1.) PRAISE THE LORD! After our preliminary prayer and rosary session is complete, send off our rabble to train themselves using our brightest and most patient as teachers: though eager, I do not trust these men's resolve when it comes to the hardship of war; not yet. (Train the Rabble!)
2.) This area we are assigned to...it is not terribly familiar. We shall scope it out so that we might become familiar with it; see to it that we map out all landmarks and areas of potential interest, and perhaps chat up with the locals to see what news they bare. (Scout.)
Rolled 32, 6 = 38 (2d100)
>>46527895
Name: Crispinus Tullus Scruffitius
Culture: Tripoli (of polish/lebanese descent)
Fluff: http://pastebin.com/GZmvmxHx
Religion: Catholic
Colour: Orange - the Classic Color
Transit: Marching Southwest from Southern Germany
Military: 50 mounted, 470 men at arms, 501 rabble.
Bonuses: [Pauper Prince] An ambitious young man denied his birthright and trained for warfare by holy men, Crispinus gets +5 to all combat rolls.
1/2. If the people shall not come, and the wood is not ready, then we have little choice. Start marching south, find a nice wooded area to make camp, preferably on a hill.
Rolled 19, 49 = 68 (2d100)
1. Invite over my lenders and surprise them with a feast and an early repayment in full! Spend all 6 Chests of Wealth. Tell them to let the Jewish community know I am fair to all my subjects and business partners.
2. Call a great martial contest throughout the region. Let it be known the best fighters will be hired on to my service in positions of prestige.
Name: Azka'hail abu-Dakar
Culture: Moorish
Fluff: Mercenary Captain, seeks peace for these lands and knows the Catholic monarchs will never allow it.
Religion: Sunni
Colour: Royal Purple
Military: 83 mounted, 494 men at arms, 526 rabble.
Bonuses: [Is it really so much to Azk?] As a man whose main concern is to fight for peace, Azka'hail gets a bonus of +5 to defensive combat rolls and +5 to diplomacy when negotiating truces.
6 [Chests of Wealth] *earmarked for repaying Jews
Rolled 5, 78 = 83 (2d100)
>>46527895
Name: Mattew Fores
Culture: Holy Roman Empire
Fluff: Second son of a German family, Matthew trained for years with the bow from horseback. An expert marksman on foot or horse, Matthew won a small bit of fame in a tourney held by the Duke of Masovia. His three signature arrows, forest green shafts with swan fletchings, managed to strike the center ring from 400 yards. Not particularly suited for melee combat, due to his short statue, Matthew fights with a short sword and saxe only when absolutely necessary. Otherwise, his bow is his primary weapon. The ability to fire multiple shafts in the span of seconds has been engrained through years of practice, each one carrying a man's life in it's barbed steel head.
The call for the reconquest of the Iberian peninsula struck the young man hard, and with his brother set to inherit what little holdings the family owns, there was nothing to hold Matthew back. Astride his faithful horse Connam, with his bow and wits as armaments, Matthew set off to free the Holy Land.
Religion: Catholic
Colour: Purple
Transit: Riding my trusty steed Connam
Military: 50 mounted, 200 men at arms, 710 rabble
Bonuses: [Robin Who?] Mattew is a consummate archer, and is deadly effective when able to engage at range and direct his men to do likewise. When fighting alongside an ally willing to absorb the brunt of the melee fighting, Mattew gets +10 in battle - and his ally gets +5
1&2 ) Train the rabble, I'll not have men throwing their lives away and leaving grieving mothers and wives.
Rolled 62, 95 = 157 (2d100)
>>46527876
>Name: Philaretos Photius
>Culture: Greek/Imperial with Visigothic Heritage
>Fluff: Philaretos is the son of Uriel Photius, who was an agent of the Emperor in the early Crusade of the East. He was recalled due to the Byzantine politics of the Capital. Uriel eventually married a Visigothic noblewoman whose family fled Spain in the more recent conquests. With the Emperor taking a renewed interest in the West, the Photius family has sent Philaretos, trained for war and administration, to Spain to assist Christendom in reclaiming Hispania - under the banner of the Empire, of course.
>Religion: Orthodox
>Colour: Blue and Gold if possible
>Transit: Sailed.
Military: 50 mounted, 200 men at arms, 710 rabble.
Resources: 2 [Chests of Wealth]
Bonuses: [Byzantine Clerk] Trained for wartime administration, Philaretos can easily establish supply lines, baggage trains and other logistics for new troops, making recruitment easier. +5 to recruitment.
1)Train the rabble
2) fortify the newly conquered land
>>46527895
Name: Philippe Pelletier
Culture: French with some Iberian Heritage
Fluff: Being the young 3rd son of a minor french nobleman, Phillippe has little to look forwards to in way of inheritance. Looking to make a name for himself, he looks south towards the crusade as a means to acquire land and glory. Trained to be a proper french knight, he is skilled with sword lance and riding. With the blessing of his father him and a small retainer set out to drum up support in the french countryside as they make their way to Iberia
Religion: Catholic
Colour: Yellow
Transit: Currently marching south along the west coast of france
Bonuses: [Fleur de Chevalerie] French Knights are famous across europe for being romantic heroes, unstoppable on the charge - one was even crowned King of Jerusalem - and Pillippe is counted among this historic number. His mounted troops are scarily effective on flat ground.
Lets make our way to the crusade, theres glory to be had
1. Try to recruit local knights or nobles, with promises of glory and land
2. Continue the march south
Can I join or is it too late?
Rolled 54, 87 = 141 (2d100)
>>46528424
forgot to roll
Rolled 9, 84 = 93 (2d100)
>>46527895
Name: Imaad ibin'Nassor
Culture: Fatimid Caliphate
Fluff: The First Crusades were remembered as a triumph, not only in Europe, but in Egypt as well. Through faith, perseverance, and the cunning of the Caliph's most trusted general, Nassor ibin'Akil, the Fatimids conquered Sinai, beat back numerous Crusader incursions, and took Mecca without a single drop of blood. Now, in the thirty years since, Nassor's third son-- third of five-- has proven himself a competent and capable general. Like father, like son, they say, and so the Caliph has given Imaad a very important task: safeguard the Western borders of the Caliphate. Break any resistance. Prove that his family line are loyal warriors all.
Religion: Shia Islam
Colour: Dark Blue.
Transit: Arrived by horse to the Caliphate's western border.
Forces: 50 mounted, 200 MaA, 500 rabble
Bonuses: [My father, and his father, and...] A legacy of brave service has endeared you to the Shia Caliph. +10 to rolls asking for support... within reason.
"Out of all of the sons of the Caliph's Fist, you are the middle. You are not a grand strategist, as your eldest brother. You are not a fearsome and terrible warrior, as your immediate youngest brother. Unlike Rasheed, faith alone does not guide your hand. Unlike little Altaf, your spirit is not sated by merchantry and coin.
"Why did I choose you, then, to go West? Because I see in you what my father saw in your father.
"Resolve. Prudence. Loyalty."
1. Imaad begins training the Rabble under his service. The road to becoming a warrior is long, but it is a road they will tread."
2. Begin building a port-- the Caliphate cannot be guarded by land alone.
Rolled 86, 52 = 138 (2d100)
>>46527895
Name: Ungodala
Culture: Iberia
Fluff: Raised from birth to fight for his home, Ungodala has recieved permission to protect it
Religion: lberian
Colour: Purple
Transit: March
Military: 50 mounted, 200 men at arms, 750 rabble.
Bonuses: [Blessed Protector] A native Sunni muslim, Ungodala knows how to navigate and protect his home. He receives +5 to defensive combat and can travel further.
1. Train the rabble how to fight for Allah!
2. Get news on the christian heretics
Name: John De Hampton
Culture: Anglo-Norman
Fluff: Like many English second sons he will not inherit land from his father and so must go out into the world to take his own. He was educated and armed as befitting any knight, although oddly he can read too. He has spent time in Ireland and Wales fighting against the tribal Celts and their unsymmetrical style of warfare. Rumour has it he slew his own cousin when challenged for the hand of a rich land owner and now seeks penance through the blood of infidels.
Religion: Catholic
Colour: Red and white
Transit: Boat in to Asturias, then by foot into the marcher territories of western Christian held Spain
Is this any good?
>>46522787
>>46522815
Name: Prince Ludovic of Jerusalem
Culture: French. Prince of Jerusalem.
Fluff: The son of a son of a legend. Ludovic travels from God's Kingdom at the age of eighteen with a contingent of the terrifying elite Templar Knights and a banner that inspires awe across the Christian world. A second child, Ludovic is young, ambitious, and ruthless. The Iron steps of the Templars do not stop in Jerusalem. Not in France. Not until the ends of the earth. Not until they win.
Religion: Catholic.
Colour: RED AS MY GRANDFATHER
Transit: [How did you arrive in Iberia? Did you march? Did you sail? Or are you simply defending your home?]
Is the game full or still room to join?
>>46528834
Forgot Transit. Sailed across with troops.
>>46528958
http://chat.mibbit.com/?channel=%23Nation&server=irc.mibbit.net
This would be the place to ask. He has the same handL in there.
>>46529020
Thanks
>>46527941
While you could certainly put any old people onto your finely bred war horses, you feel like it would just be a shame to hand them off to ignorant yokels who could barely swing a sword.
Still, it transpires that funds are easy enough to get together, calling in debts to accumulate some coin.
+3 [Chest of Wealth] Can be expended for a small bonus to another roll, or to hire mercenaries.
>>46528020
The rabble don't respond terribly well to your encouragement that they should train, but your spies slip into Valencia with the well-practiced skill of expert infiltrators, even putting an agent into the night guard, who is confident that they could throw open the gates one night if you so commanded.
>>46528066
Military: 50 mounted, 200 men at arms, 500 rabble.
Bonuses: [A Worthy Vassal] As vassals of Cordoba, Tariq and his family can occasionally act with the authority of their liege, but may have tasks required of them in exchange.
>>46528119
You begin your island conquest, but it leaves little time to train the rabble.
>>46528124
Your men thunder north.
>>46528205
The island you find yourself upon is relatively small, but a safe natural harbour is easy enough to find to make landfall.
Your scouts report that only minor arab and muslim forces seem to be here for the moment - the majority relegated to the mainland.
>>46528239
You stop in southern France, near Toulouse. You pray and encourage the rabble to train, but a storm splits the sky and the inclement weather forces a halt to it. You think little of it at first, but this self-same storm seems to be lingering - and the more paranoid or credulous of the believers in your entourage start to say that your expedition is cursed.
When a bolt of lightning strikes the supplies, this is seen as confirmation and you see desertion in droves.
-80 men at arms
-249 rabble
>>46528272
You march a short distance south of the border and find a hill, but your men are unused to the southern heat and beg to stop.
>>46529302
>>46528276
The lenders seem satisfied at the repayment you make in good time, but their consensus appears to be that such things should be the norm, so making such an event of it reflects poorly on you. Still, your debt is considered settled.
Warriors start to gather for the great martial contest you have called. (Progress 1/3)
>>46528314
There is a great chasm between some of your followers. Some are exemplars, training in every free moment, but yet more are lazy layabouts who take any excuse not to.
+155 men at arms, -155 rabble
>>46528349
The rabble train, and Menorca is fortified well, made into an almost peerless defensive emplacement.
>>46528424
There are a few knights who join you, but not many all things considered. You march south through France and Nevarra, ending up on the border of moorish territory.
>>46528451
The rabble are unruly after the long march, and stubbornly resist training - so with characteristic resolve, you turn them to more menial tasks until they learn to obey. They are forced to erect piers and anchorages so that ships might be properly moored and unloaded onto distant north-west africa.
>>46528523
The Christians, it is said, still linger on the northern border too craven to attack - the only conquests that have been made so far have been in the east, the Balearic islands suffering an invasion from further afield.
The news that their foes are so cowardly spurs your men to train as hard as possible.
+172 men at arms, -172 rabble
>>46528713
Military: 50 mounted, 200 men at arms, 500 rabble.
Bonuses: [Knight Repentant] Undertaking the crusade to redeem himself of his martial sins, John has a history of prevailing in honour duels, and receives +10 in personal combat.
>>46528834
Military: 75 mounted, 300 men at arms, 250 rabble.
Bonuses: [Prince of Jerusalem] Ludovic's family is widely regarded as a line of heroes across Christendom. Ludovic himself is stubborn and ruthless, and his troops tend not to break easily.
1. Work on expanding our cavalry force.
2. Keep on keeping on with the martial contest (1/3 progress).
Name: Azka'hail abu-Dakar
Culture: Moorish
Fluff: Mercenary Captain, seeks peace for these lands and knows the Catholic monarchs will never allow it.
Religion: Sunni
Colour: Royal Purple
Military: 83 mounted, 494 men at arms, 526 rabble.
Bonuses: [Is it really so much to Azk?] As a man whose main concern is to fight for peace, Azka'hail gets a bonus of +5 to defensive combat rolls and +5 to diplomacy when negotiating truces.
>>46529302
I am confused about what color I am. Which dot on the map am i?
Rolled 59, 5 = 64 (2d100)
>>46529351
Rolls
>>46529354
Brown one in Africa I assume.
Rolled 61, 29 = 90 (2d100)
>>46529302
Name: John De Hampton
Culture: Anglo-Norman
Fluff: Like many English second sons he will not inherit land from his father and so must go out into the world to take his own. He was educated and armed as befitting any knight, although oddly he can read too. He has spent time in Ireland and Wales fighting against the tribal Celts and their unsymmetrical style of warfare. Rumour has it he slew his own cousin when challenged for the hand of a rich land owner and now seeks penance through the blood of infidels.
Religion: Catholic
Colour: Red and white
Transit: Boat in to Asturias, then by foot into the marcher territories of western Christian held Spain
Military: 50 mounted, 200 men at arms, 500 rabble.
Bonuses: [Knight Repentant] Undertaking the crusade to redeem himself of his martial sins, John has a history of prevailing in honour duels, and receives +10 in personal combat.
Actions:
1. Continue to head south to Moorish territory and stop upon the border to establish the lay of the land from a local Christian lord
2. Train some of the rabble to try and make them more effective fighters, arming them better if at all possible
Rolled 65, 57 = 122 (2d100)
>>46529319
Name: Imaad ibin'Nassor
Culture: Fatimid Caliphate
Fluff: The First Crusades were remembered as a triumph, not only in Europe, but in Egypt as well. Through faith, perseverance, and the cunning of the Caliph's most trusted general, Nassor ibin'Akil, the Fatimids conquered Sinai, beat back numerous Crusader incursions, and took Mecca without a single drop of blood. Now, in the thirty years since, Nassor's third son-- third of five-- has proven himself a competent and capable general. Like father, like son, they say, and so the Caliph has given Imaad a very important task: safeguard the Western borders of the Caliphate. Break any resistance. Prove that his family line are loyal warriors all.
Religion: Shia Islam
Colour: Dark Blue.
Transit: Arrived by horse to the Caliphate's western border.
Forces: 50 mounted, 200 MaA, 500 rabble
Holdings: Crude Port(?)
Bonuses: [My father, and his father, and...] A legacy of brave service has endeared you to the Shia Caliph. +10 to rolls asking for support... within reason.
1. That was an order, not a suggestion-- the Rabble will be trained.
2. Begin turning this crude set of moorings and pillars into a proper port!
Rolled 44, 12 = 56 (2d100)
>>46529319
>Name: Philaretos Photius
>Culture: Greek/Imperial with Visigothic Heritage
>Fluff: Philaretos is the son of Uriel Photius, who was an agent of the Emperor in the early Crusade of the East. He was recalled due to the Byzantine politics of the Capital. Uriel eventually married a Visigothic noblewoman whose family fled Spain in the more recent conquests. With the Emperor taking a renewed interest in the West, the Photius family has sent Philaretos, trained for war and administration, to Spain to assist Christendom in reclaiming Hispania - under the banner of the Empire, of course.
>Religion: Orthodox
>Colour: Blue and Gold if possible
>Transit: Sailed.
Military: 50 mounted, 200 men at arms, 710 rabble.
Resources: 3 [Chests of Wealth]
Bonuses: [Byzantine Clerk] Trained for wartime administration, Philaretos can easily establish supply lines, baggage trains and other logistics for new troops, making recruitment easier. +5 to recruitment.
Territory: Minorca (Fully Controlled, Menorca is fortified well, made into an almost peerless defensive emplacement.)
1. Recruit a proper garrison for Minorca from the local population. +5 Byzantine Clerk, +1 Chest of Wealth
2. Our next target is Majorca, the big island. Taking my forces, we shall land on the North - and offer the same terms to the settlements we encounter.
(No improvement to the rabble?)
Rolled 47, 38 = 85 (2d100)
>>46529373
Thanks.
Name: Mnguni Tshivhumbe
Culture: Middle Africa
Fluff: Mnguni, leader of the great Bantu people, comes to bring the Bantu to glory or eternal afterlife in battle against the Infidels and support the muslim brothers.
Religion: Sunni Convert
Colour: Black
Transit: A European regiment in heavy armor and wagon train can march 30 miles in a day before they need rest.
A Bantu regiment can run 50 miles in a day, and fight at a battle at the end of it.
Military: 2000 rabble.
Bonuses: [We Will Be Sultans] Taught of their manifest destiny by muslim imams, the tribal warriors of middle africa are powerful and relentless warriors - but lack much by way of equipment. Acquiring trained troops is harder for them, but their rabble is more effective.
1. Train War Chants. The men sing war chants at night, once to pagan gods now to Allah. The war cries from one tribe is enough to make soldiers quiver. When all the Bantu shout low, bash their shields and raise their spears the cities will lower their weapons.
2. Recruit Saharans. We continue to travel north toward the great sea. It is said in these parts there are moorish brothers upon camels. Desert warriors and soldiers. Find them and see if they want to join the great Jihad.
>>46529354
Yeah, the brown one in Africa. I forgot to move you up, sorry about that. Lot to keep track of.
>>46528349
>>46529319
+120 men at arms, -120 rabble
Rolled 76, 18 = 94 (2d100)
>>46529302
Name: Konstantinos Ibericos
Culture: Byzantine Greek
Fluff: Konstantinos' father served in the Thracesion Theme as a permanent cavalry officer, having been swept into the crusade for a short while at it's height, serving in the retinue of an Italian merchant. Konstantinos was naturally swept into this, and he grew up as the son of a rather confused Byzantine mercenary. He has, through poor luck, grown up in the assorted military camps of the Mediterranean and Levant. As the heir to his father's estate in Thrace, he returned to serve in the military of the empire for a short time, being eventually granted commission to lead a small expedition of theme men to Iberia to fight in their crusade,ostensibly as the Catholics had fought in the Crusade of the Byzantines. This situation has led to him traveling across the Mediterranean in a small Byzantine vessel with a small crew of sailors and some barely trained theme soldiers, not fit for the Tagmata, but not landed enough to serve in the upper class of the Themes.
Religion: Byzantine Orthodox, under the Patriarch of Antioch.
Colour: Purple, if it's available.
Transit: By ship, from Constantinople. The ship was not fitted with Greek fire, more suited to transporting grain.
Military: 50 mounted, 200 men at arms, 500 rabble.
Bonuses: [A Hand for a Hand] A loyal servant adherent to the Orthodox faith as preached by the Matriarch of Antioch, Konstantinos holds that the Catholics ought to be repaid for their assistance in saving the Empire. This endears him to them, even if they consider their faith borderline heretical. +10 diplomacy with Catholic nations.
Konstantinos spared only a moment to establish a safe camp, according to standard Theme practices, before finding and attacking the local Muslim force. The people of this island could likely be converted to loyal servants of the Emperor in Constantinople.
1. Set up a theme style military camp
2. Attack the Muslim forces with the entire force.
Rolled 77, 41 = 118 (2d100)
>>46529302
Name: Prince Florian of Antalya
Culture: Antalyan
Fluff: During the first crusade James of Scotland conquered the southern shores of Anatolia and took the city of Antalya as his seat of power. Being blocked in by the Byzantine empire by land the nation focused inward, and partially thanks to the tolerance of King James, became a center of the sciences and arts.
Florian is the third prince of Antalya, and as such doesnt expect to inherit much from his father. As such he set off with some me to join the reconquista to claim some land for Antalya and himself.
Religion: Orthodox
Colour: Blue
Transit: Sail
Military: 75 mounted, 300 men at arms, 410 rabble.
Bonuses: [Antalyan Prince] Raised in a land of peace and progress, Florian gets +5 on literally anything that does not involve war or soldiers.
1&2. Have the night guard spy throw open the gate in the middle of the night and quickly take the city. Do not kill civilians and only kill those that fight. Try to make our approach as quiet as possible. The other spies are to make sure no alarms go up.
Name: Jacob
Culture: Iberian Jew
Fluff: Belives that the christians will pericute the jew so he fightd for his poeple
Religion: Jewish
Color: red
Transit: Lives here
Military: 50 mounted, 338 men at arms, 362 rabble.
Bonuses: [Oy vey!] Being of uncertain loyalties, Jacob can probably get along with either side in this conflict - but is beloved by neither.
3 chests of wealth
1 train horse men from my men at arms
2 train more men at arms
Send all my gold on improving local beuacrasy and sway the. To my favor
Rolled 2, 19 = 21 (2d20)
>>46529302
Name: Ulfric
Culture: East Rome
Fluff: the son of a Varagian guard and a maid Ulfric served under his father for a time in the Guard before buying an officers title in the royal army. With his new command he has been ordered to secure the western Mediterrian isles for the empire.
Religion:Pagan
Colour: Black
Transit: Ulfric travels by sea with a small detachment of the Imperial fleet
Military: 50 mounted, 200 men at arms, 500 rabble.
Bonuses: [Son of Varangia] The varagians are known as vicious and capable warriors, famously favoured by Eastern Emperors as bodyguards. +10 to combat when attacking.
1. Seize the island
2. Train the Rabble
>>46529502
Okay. Much appreciated
>>46529485
>>46529502
>Military: 50 mounted, 320 men at arms, 590 rabble.
Adjusted
Rolled 20, 99 = 119 (2d100)
>>46529554
my bad, wrong dice.
>>46529547
Sway them, to my favor*
Rolled 29, 47 = 76 (2d100)
>>46529302
Name: Lord Otto von Saxon
Culture: Holy Roman Empire; Saxony
Fluff: A mid-ranking knight of the Knights Hospitaller, finding himself leading a small band of like-minded cavalrymen, Otto was purportedly sent in order to oversee the progress of his peers, as well as ferry a large surplus of supplies to both his fellow crusaders and any bereaved locals. Taking his responsibilities seriously, he and his men believe in fighting with a strange code of honor, defending the weak and innocent from harm, even extending some mercy to pagans and the misguided heretics. After all, are not all equal under God's eyes?
Religion: Catholic
Colour: Battleship Gray
Transit: Horseback, alongside wagons
Military: 75 mounted, 220 men at arms, 1 rabble.
Bonuses: [Warrior of God] +10 to combat rolls against religious enemies. -10 to combat rolls against fellow Christians and civilised Pagans.
1.) ...
For not fleeing, I shall take this commoner whose resolve is clearly far greater than most and train him myself into a proper cavalryman. Fetch me a horse! (Train the sole remaining rabble in the art of war and fighting on horseback!)
2.) Yet, the lack of supplies is troubling; for if I am not mistaken, the whole point of our quest was to carry said equipment across the land. We must restock; fellow knights, let us perform errands in order to better help the townsfolk of this area and earn a few favours to replace the supplies! (Restock on supplies.)
Rolled 72, 41 = 113 (2d100)
>>46529319
Name: Ungodala
Culture: Iberia
Fluff: Raised from birth to fight for his home, Ungodala has recieved permission to protect it
Religion: lberian
Colour: Purple
Transit: March
Military: 50 mounted, 372 men at arms, 578 rabble.
Bonuses: [Blessed Protector] A native Sunni muslim, Ungodala knows how to navigate and protect his home. He receives +5 to defensive combat and can travel further.
1,2. We shall show the Christians the cost of their dallying. Begin training for defensive warfare
Rolled 81, 97 = 178 (2d100)
>>46529547
Rolled 6, 7 = 13 (2d100)
Name: Crispinus Tullus Scruffitius
Culture: Tripoli (of polish/lebanese descent)
Fluff: http://pastebin.com/GZmvmxHx
Religion: Catholic
Colour: Orange - the Classic Color
Transit: Marching Southwest from Southern Germany
Military: 50 mounted, 470 men at arms, 501 rabble.
Bonuses: [Pauper Prince] An ambitious young man denied his birthright and trained for warfare by holy men, Crispinus gets +5 to all combat rolls.
1. Ai, this heat is a cruel mistress, but so long as we languish in the sun, our enemies shall prosper in the shade! We must be vigilant. Continue the march further south.
2. After moving a few more dozen good miles, we shall begin work on a fortified camp with which to strike deeper into Muslim territory with.
>>46528349
I've heard word of a catholic party to our east, send word to them of our position and invite them to come crusading with us.
Rolled 87, 55 = 142 (2d100)
>>46529302
sader
Thursday, April 7, 2016
12:25 PM
Name: Mattew Fores
Culture: Holy Roman Empire
Fluff: Second son of a German family, Matthew trained for years with the bow from horseback. An expert marksman on foot or horse, Matthew won a small bit of fame in a tourney held by the Duke of Masovia. His three signature arrows, forest green shafts with swan fletchings, managed to strike the center ring from 400 yards. Not particularly suited for melee combat, due to his short statue, Matthew fights with a short sword and saxe only when absolutely necessary. Otherwise, his bow is his primary weapon. The ability to fire multiple shafts in the span of seconds has been engrained through years of practice, each one carrying a man's life in it's barbed steel head.
The call for the reconquest of the Iberian peninsula struck the young man hard, and with his brother set to inherit what little holdings the family owns, there was nothing to hold Matthew back. Astride his faithful horse Connam, with his bow and wits as armaments, Matthew set off to free the Holy Land.
Religion: Catholic
Colour: Purple
Transit: Riding my trusty steed Connam
Military: 50 mounted, 355 men at arms, 565 rabble
Bonuses: [Robin Who?] Mattew is a consummate archer, and is deadly effective when able to engage at range and direct his men to do likewise. When fighting alongside an ally willing to absorb the brunt of the melee fighting, Mattew gets +10 in battle - and his ally gets +5
1) Find the men with skill with bows, any level of skill, and begin forming them into a unit of archers.
2) Join forces with Sir Crispinus on his march south. The moors will have trouble with as large a host as ours
Rolled 3, 65 = 68 (2d100)
>>46529319
Name: Prince Ludovic of Jerusalem
Culture: French. Prince of Jerusalem.
Fluff: The son of a son of a legend. Ludovic travels from God's Kingdom at the age of eighteen with a contingent of the terrifying elite Templar Knights and a banner that inspires awe across the Christian world. A second child, Ludovic is young, ambitious, and ruthless. The Iron steps of the Templars do not stop in Jerusalem. Not in France. Not until the ends of the earth. Not until they win.
Religion: Catholic.
Colour: RED AS MY GRANDFATHER
Transit: Sailed.
Military: 75 mounted, 300 men at arms, 250 rabble.
Bonuses: [Prince of Jerusalem] Ludovic's family is widely regarded as a line of heroes across Christendom. Ludovic himself is stubborn and ruthless, and his troops tend not to break easily.
1. Arrival in Catalonia. First, the arrival of the Templars should be known, and grand, for word to spread across the land that the grandson of the Fist of Christendom has arrived to free them at last. Templar knights bearing the awestriking emblems of the order and of Jersualem are to draw men from the villages around as we march, and from these fresh sources, exhausted of oppression and filled with new hope, we will find recruits.
2. There is no time for rest now. We march immediately on the Muslim town of Lledia to the direct north, as it will provide a perfect point for planning a quick, strong incursion to the western fortress of Zaragoza. This is a trivial task, as there will hardly be more than perhaps a single patrol, and with luck we can begin immediate preparations to take the soon-to-be-Templar fortress of Zaragoza.
FREE: Send an envoy to the King in these lands announcing my intent to help. Troops, obviously, would be nice, but at least working with local governance is a necessity. I will ask him more when we require it.
Rolled 55, 73 = 128 (2d100)
>>46529319
Name: Philippe Pelletier
Culture: French with some Iberian Heritage
Fluff: Being the young 3rd son of a minor french nobleman, Phillippe has little to look forwards to in way of inheritance. Looking to make a name for himself, he looks south towards the crusade as a means to acquire land and glory. Trained to be a proper french knight, he is skilled with sword lance and riding. With the blessing of his father him and a small retainer set out to drum up support in the french countryside as they make their way to Iberia
Religion: Catholic
Colour: Yellow
Transit: Currently marching south along the west coast of france
Military: 75 mounted, 300 men at arms, 250 rabble.
Bonuses: [Fleur de Chevalerie] French Knights are famous across europe for being romantic heroes, unstoppable on the charge - one was even crowned King of Jerusalem - and Pillippe is counted among this historic number. His mounted troops are scarily effective on flat ground.
Did I gain any military units from those few knights that I recruited?
1. Recruit more soldiers to my cause
2. Train up my existing rabble
>>46529529
Free action:
A message is sent to Konstantinos, suggesting that he, Ulfric and Philaretos meet once the immediate pacification of the Theme of Mallorca was completed.
Name: Pierre the "Most Pure"
Culture: Toulousian {French}
Fluff: Pierre Lautremont is a local preacher of the Cathar Christian sect. During the persecution, his followers were largely destroyed with Pierre managing to escape and hide. With the coming of the crusade, Pierre has found his chance to rally the masses to his banner: he has promised them revenge, land, and salvation. His charisma is striking.
Religion: Cathar [Christian Heretic]
Colour: Blue
Transit: Local
>>46529675
>>46529677
Messages are sent to Crispinus and Matthew announcing the intent of the Templars to siege Zaragoza in a week's time and inviting both the commanders to join him in assaulting the city for Christendom. A strong fortified center and early victory will help us immensely down the line.
>>46522787
>Name: Amazu "the drill master Aybary
>Culture: Moorish
>Fluff: Amazu is an old rival of Azka'hail abu-Dakar they gave shared a thousand battles. Fighting both with and against his old friend. Unlike his rival Amazu does not seek to install peace. He has ambitions of carving out his own small Kingdom in Hispania. Also unlike his competitor he is not a warrior of renown. He is best known for the training of his troops he puts out. Specializing in quality over quantity. Many times he contracts a part of his company out to a small lordling or warrior as guards or to help on their own quests and journeys. This has allowed him to maintain steady income despite rarely risking his own safety.
>Religion: Sunni
>Colour: some shade or green
>Transit: sailed.
>>46529973
A reply is sent back
"So to as our ancestors rode together, so shall we, for the glory of God and the preservation of the one holy church!"
>>46529833
Free Action:
A message is sent in reply, agreeing to the idea and wishing the grace of god upon the expeditions of Philaretos and Ulfric.
>>46529973
The reply comes quickly, carried by a lightly armed horseman.
"Prince Ludovic, it is with great pleasure that I am able to help the Lord's work. My men, numbering near a thousand at the time of this letter, shall serve to remove the Saracens from the great city of Zaragoza. The streets with run red, though my men will be restricted from looting Christen homes. The Saracens, however, shall pay dearly for their times in a Christen land."
>>46529351
>>46529373
The preparations for your contest are stalled by various complications, but equipping some of your men with horses and more robust armaments is simple enough to do.
+29 mounted, -29 men at arms
>>46529441
You reach the border without major incident, and though the rabble are too exhausted from the march to develop any, one of the local vassals of the Queen of Castille explains that the muslim forces to the east seem to be commanded by a stern but fair peace-loving warlord, while to the south and west, they are still largely decentralised and disorganised.
>>46529455
You work the men hard to instill proper discipline, and proper regiments start to take shape from the pathetic rabble, even as a dock grows out of the simple coastline. It's hardly a port yet, but it could certainly host a few ships.
>>46529485
Minorca is well garrisoned by the locals, the ones who remained seeming amenable to rule by an agent of the Eastern Empire. The wealth you spend ensures that they are well outfitted - but it transpires that in the dead of night, agents of the Majorcan Emir have fired your ships, putting paid to your plans of swift invasion.
>>46529498
More tribal warriors join your roving band, and you forge north across the straits. A handful of camel riders join you, but it is hardly an impressive number.
+3 mounted
+224 rabble
>>46529529
You assault the meagre Muslim garrison, and though they are outnumbered, they succeed in throwing you back. You bury your dead regretfully, but a select few the locals are so impressed by your military camp that they step in to replace the losses and then some.
+120 rabble
>>46529542
The assault on Valencia is surprisingly bloodless. A few muted skirmishes in the streets with wandering guardsmen are quickly concluded in your favour, and the garrison is taken by surprise, and surrenders once they realise your forces are already amongst them.
Now you have to decide what to do with the few hundred captive town guards.
Rolled 37, 99 = 136 (2d100)
>>46529302
>>Name: Tariq Abd al-Aziz
>>Culture: Andalusian, from Córdoba
>>Fluff: Tariq's ancestors boast a proud history of service to Islam and to al-Andalus. His family claim service to the Ummayad dynasty and all it's successors, extending from before 718 and the conquest of al-Andalus from the Catholic Visigoths. From birth, Tariq has trained in the art of strategy and war, and honed a reputation as a soldier of merit and student of Islam, despite his youth. He aspires to defend his home, despite any cost, and to repel any would be invaders with extreme prejudice. He seeks to make his ancestors proud and win favor as a valiant and loyal servant to his liege, the Emir of Cordoba. With his youth, however, comes a thirst for glory that has yet to be properly sated.
>>Religion: Sunni Islam
>>Colour: Dark Green
>>Transit: Located in CórdobaMilitary: 50 mounted, 200 men at arms, 500 rabble.
Bonuses: [A Worthy Vassal] As vassals of Cordoba, Tariq and his family can occasionally act with the authority of their liege, but may have tasks required of them in exchange.
Tariq taps on the pommel of his blade as he waits for commandants from his sovereign liege lord. With Christians encroaching on pious Muslim, now is the time for decisive action. Tariq waits for council with the Emir.
1. In the meantime, the recruits need training in both the ways of war, and the teaching of islam
>train recruits
2. Gather servants of the Emir to fight the enemies of Islam
>recruit rabble
>>46530408
>>46529547
>>46529631
Your men are trained impeccably. You devise a system whereby the men will train together, and offer tiny little incentives for them to achieve the targets they are set. Before long, you have more than doubled your mounted contingent, and you are looking at nearly two hundred more soldiers.
The local bureaucracy receives your gifts graciously, and you can tell they are well disposed towards you.
+61 mounted
+134 men at arms
-195 rabble
-3 [Chest of Wealth]
>>46529554
>>46529585
If it's not one thing, then it is another.You are beset by countless problems sa you try to take the island. You can barely get any sleep, and it seems you're working hard just to keep from being thrown back into the sea.
Still this trial by fire is an excellent way for your green infantry to learn the ropes - and before long the majority are seasoned warriors.
+275 men at arms, -275 rabble
>>46529617
The one remaining commoner is a man in late middle age - and though he can sit a horse reasonably well, and swing a blade, he's hardly an incredible warrior. Still, he embraces his new role cheerfully enough.
Your men work in service to local lords - putting down bandits, collecting taxes and so on, and before long you have equipped a new caravan with supplies.
+1 mounted
>>46529630
You train defensively. It goes pretty well.
+220 men at arms, -220 rabble
>>46529675
You want to march.
You really do.
But having a peaceful siesta is better.
>>46529677
For whatever reason, it seems that Crispinus is unable to join you in your southerly foray - but with your newly trained archers, and an awareness of the tricks the locals like to use, you make some solid headway on your own, subduing a few small villages.
+174 men at arms, -174 rabble
>>46529685
For whatever reason, you cannot find recruits. Perhaps your own standards are too high - or perhaps your ruthless reputation as a taskmaster precedes you.
You reach Lleida - the Barcelonan duke sends encouragement.
>>46530432
>>46529783Yes you did. They're included here. Thank you for your patience.
Marching forth with pennants flying, you attract a small host of wide-eyed Aragonese to your banner, many of whom take up arms and train with surprising vim and vigour alongside your other men.
+12 mounted, +156 men at arms, +100 rabble
Rolled 39, 35 = 74 (2d100)
1. Complications!? Make sure things go smoothly. (1/3 on Competition)
2. Conduct some more trade with our Christian friends.
Name: Azka'hail abu-Dakar
Culture: Moorish
Fluff: Mercenary Captain, seeks peace for these lands and knows the Catholic monarchs will never allow it.
Religion: Sunni
Colour: Royal Purple
Military: 112 mounted, 466 men at arms, 526 rabble.
Bonuses: [Is it really so much to Azk?] As a man whose main concern is to fight for peace, Azka'hail gets a bonus of +5 to defensive combat rolls and +5 to diplomacy when negotiating truces.
>>46529865
Military: 25 mounted, 100 men at arms, 1,000 rabble.
Bonuses: [Absolutely Heretical] He may be a heretic, but his rhetoric is compelling. +5 to recruitment rolls.
>>46530097
Military: 50 mounted, 200 men at arms, 500 rabble.
Bonuses: [That Damned Azka'hail] It's true, you have a rivalry - but you seem to take it so much more seriously than he does. +10 to rolls where you have a chance of directly embarrassing your rival
Rolled 68, 37 = 105 (2d100)
>>46530432
Name: Crispinus Tullus Scruffitius
Culture: Tripoli (of polish/lebanese descent)
Fluff: http://pastebin.com/GZmvmxHx
Religion: Catholic
Colour: Orange - the Classic Color
Transit: Marching Southwest from Southern Germany
Military: 50 mounted, 470 men at arms, 501 rabble.
Bonuses: [Pauper Prince] An ambitious young man denied his birthright and trained for warfare by holy men, Crispinus gets +5 to all combat rolls.
1/2. *YAWN* That was a nice reprieve from the road, but we really should be marching to meet Ludovic soon. At the town of Zaragoza, we shall test our mettle.
Rolled 90, 2 = 92 (2d100)
>>46530408
Name: Imaad ibin'Nassor
Culture: Fatimid Caliphate
Fluff: The First Crusades were remembered as a triumph, not only in Europe, but in Egypt as well. Through faith, perseverance, and the cunning of the Caliph's most trusted general, Nassor ibin'Akil, the Fatimids conquered Sinai, beat back numerous Crusader incursions, and took Mecca without a single drop of blood. Now, in the thirty years since, Nassor's third son-- third of five-- has proven himself a competent and capable general. Like father, like son, they say, and so the Caliph has given Imaad a very important task: safeguard the Western borders of the Caliphate. Break any resistance. Prove that his family line are loyal warriors all.
Religion: Shia Islam
Colour: Dark Blue.
Transit: Arrived by horse to the Caliphate's western border.
Forces: 50 mounted, 200 MaA, 500 rabble
Holdings: Crude Port(?)
Bonuses: [My father, and his father, and...] A legacy of brave service has endeared you to the Shia Caliph. +10 to rolls asking for support... within reason.
1. Continue the training.
2. Begin building ships.
Rolled 66, 62 = 128 (2d100)
>>46530408
Name: Ulfric
Culture: East Rome
Fluff: the son of a Varagian guard and a maid Ulfric served under his father for a time in the Guard before buying an officers title in the royal army. With his new command he has been ordered to secure the western Mediterrian isles for the empire.
Religion:Pagan
Colour: Black
Transit: Ulfric travels by sea with a small detachment of the Imperial fleet
Military: 50 mounted, 475 men at arms, 225 rabble.
Bonuses: [Son of Varangia] The varagians are known as vicious and capable warriors, famously favoured by Eastern Emperors as bodyguards. +10 to combat when attacking.
1&2. Seize the island
Rolled 65, 17 = 82 (2d100)
>>46530408
>>46530432
Name: Prince Ludovic of Jerusalem
Culture: French. Prince of Jerusalem.
Fluff: The son of a son of a legend. Ludovic travels from God's Kingdom at the age of eighteen with a contingent of the terrifying elite Templar Knights and a banner that inspires awe across the Christian world. A second child, Ludovic is young, ambitious, and ruthless. The Iron steps of the Templars do not stop in Jerusalem. Not in France. Not until the ends of the earth. Not until they win.
Religion: Catholic.
Colour: RED AS MY GRANDFATHER
Transit: Sailed.
Military: 75 mounted, 300 men at arms, 250 rabble.
Bonuses: [Prince of Jerusalem] Ludovic's family is widely regarded as a line of heroes across Christendom. Ludovic himself is stubborn and ruthless, and his troops tend not to break easily.
1. That's a tad bit annoying. Having some extra recruits for the Templars during this siege would be nice. Perhaps the promise of glory and fame would serve these men better than throwing off the Muslim oppressors. I cannot particularly blame them - many men want merely food for their table. We'll draw them forward towards Zaragoza with us and the promise of a fresh victory.
>>46530491
>>46530383
2. Meeting with Crispinus and Matthew, we march for Zaragoza. A strong, fortified city that holds this branch of the Muslim kingdoms under their rule.
Soon, it will be ours.
Rolled 95, 52 = 147 (2d100)
>>46530408
Name: Philippe Pelletier
Culture: French with some Iberian Heritage
Fluff: Being the young 3rd son of a minor french nobleman, Phillippe has little to look forwards to in way of inheritance. Looking to make a name for himself, he looks south towards the crusade as a means to acquire land and glory. Trained to be a proper french knight, he is skilled with sword lance and riding. With the blessing of his father him and a small retainer set out to drum up support in the french countryside as they make their way to Iberia
Religion: Catholic
Colour: Yellow
Transit: Currently marching south along the west coast of france
Military: 87 mounted, 456 men at arms, 350 rabble.
Bonuses: [Fleur de Chevalerie] French Knights are famous across europe for being romantic heroes, unstoppable on the charge - one was even crowned King of Jerusalem - and Pillippe is counted among this historic number. His mounted troops are scarily effective on flat ground.
Our lances will pierce the hearts of the muslim occupiers
1. Send out scouts to scout out the muslim lands to the south
2. Continue training troops
Rolled 24, 28 = 52 (2d100)
>>46530408
>Name: Philaretos Photius
>Culture: Greek/Imperial with Visigothic Heritage
>Fluff: Philaretos is the son of Uriel Photius, who was an agent of the Emperor in the early Crusade of the East. He was recalled due to the Byzantine politics of the Capital. Uriel eventually married a Visigothic noblewoman whose family fled Spain in the more recent conquests. With the Emperor taking a renewed interest in the West, the Photius family has sent Philaretos, trained for war and administration, to Spain to assist Christendom in reclaiming Hispania - under the banner of the Empire, of course.
>Religion: Orthodox
>Colour: Blue and Gold if possible
>Transit: Sailed.
Military: 50 mounted, 320 men at arms, 590 rabble.
Resources: 3 [Chests of Wealth]
Bonuses: [Byzantine Clerk] Trained for wartime administration, Philaretos can easily establish supply lines, baggage trains and other logistics for new troops, making recruitment easier. +5 to recruitment.
Territory: Minorca (Fully Controlled and well garrisoned with loyal locals, Menorca is fortified well, made into an almost peerless defensive emplacement.)
1. Blasted Emir! He will pay for this. Order the construction of a shipyard. We will need replacement galleys.
2. While we are stuck on Minorca, we shall recruit and train troops. +5 Clerk
Rolled 22, 14 = 36 (2d100)
Name: Jacob
Culture: Iberian Jew
Fluff: Belives that the christians will pericute the jew so he fightd for his poeple
Religion: Jewish
Color: red
Transit: Lives here
Military: 116'mounted, 472 men at arms, 168 rabble.
Bonuses: [Oy vey!] Being of uncertain loyalties, Jacob can probably get along with either side in this conflict - but is beloved by neither.
1 using the beuricrats I attempt to rule the province atomously
2 gather taxes at fair rates among the people
Rolled 42, 53 = 95 (2d100)
>>46530408
Name: John De Hampton
Culture: Anglo-Norman
Fluff: Like many English second sons he will not inherit land from his father and so must go out into the world to take his own. He was educated and armed as befitting any knight, although oddly he can read too. He has spent time in Ireland and Wales fighting against the tribal Celts and their unsymmetrical style of warfare. Rumour has it he slew his own cousin when challenged for the hand of a rich land owner and now seeks penance through the blood of infidels.
Religion: Catholic
Colour: Red and white
Transit: Boat in to Asturias, then by foot into the marcher territories of western Christian held Spain
Military: 50 mounted, 200 men at arms, 500 rabble.
Bonuses: [Knight Repentant] Undertaking the crusade to redeem himself of his martial sins, John has a history of prevailing in honour duels, and receives +10 in personal combat
Actions:
1. Move west towards Lisbon loot as we go and see if we can attract any Christians sick of a heathen yoke to fight
2. Make sure the rabble continue to train, I will need far more Men at arm's yet!
Rolled 73, 40 = 113 (2d100)
>>46530408
Name: Mattew Fores
Culture: Holy Roman Empire
Fluff: Second son of a German family, Matthew trained for years with the bow from horseback. An expert marksman on foot or horse, Matthew won a small bit of fame in a tourney held by the Duke of Masovia. His three signature arrows, forest green shafts with swan fletchings, managed to strike the center ring from 400 yards. Not particularly suited for melee combat, due to his short statue, Matthew fights with a short sword and saxe only when absolutely necessary. Otherwise, his bow is his primary weapon. The ability to fire multiple shafts in the span of seconds has been engrained through years of practice, each one carrying a man's life in it's barbed steel head.
The call for the reconquest of the Iberian peninsula struck the young man hard, and with his brother set to inherit what little holdings the family owns, there was nothing to hold Matthew back. Astride his faithful horse Connam, with his bow and wits as armaments, Matthew set off to free the Holy Land.
Religion: Catholic
Colour: Purple
Transit: Riding my trusty steed Connam
Military: 50 mounted, 529 men at arms, 391 rabble
Bonuses: [Robin Who?] Mattew is a consummate archer, and is deadly effective when able to engage at range and direct his men to do likewise. When fighting alongside an ally willing to absorb the brunt of the melee fighting, Mattew gets +10 in battle - and his ally gets +5
1 ) Continue our campaign to Zaragoza, conquering villages as we go.
2 ) In these villages and towns, seek out blacksmiths, carpenters, and engineers. Convince them to join me, so that their skills will not be wasted on horseshoes and tables
Rolled 52, 1 = 53 (2d100)
Name: Pierre the "Most Pure"
Culture: Toulousian {French}
Fluff: Pierre Lautremont is a local preacher of the Cathar Christian sect. During the persecution, his followers were largely destroyed with Pierre managing to escape and hide. With the coming of the crusade, Pierre has found his chance to rally the masses to his banner: he has promised them revenge, land, and salvation. His charisma is striking.
Religion: Cathar [Christian Heretic]
Colour: Blue
Transit: Local
Military: 25 mounted, 100 men at arms, 1,000 rabble.
Bonuses: [Absolutely Heretical] He may be a heretic, but his rhetoric is compelling. +5 to recruitment rolls.
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Actions
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1. Spread the truth faith! The TRUE word of god is with us! {Recruit}{+5}
2. Seize whatever money the heretic lords have! God's servant needs money! {Expropriate}
>>46530432
Name: Ungodala
Culture: Iberia
Fluff: Raised from birth to fight for his home, Ungodala has recieved permission to protect it
Religion: lberian
Colour: Purple
Transit: March
Military: 50 mounted, 592 men at arms, 358 rabble.
Bonuses: [Blessed Protector] A native Sunni muslim, Ungodala knows how to navigate and protect his home. He receives +5 to defensive combat and can travel further.
1. Recruit holy crossbowmen for Allah
2. Speak to the rulers of the cities and see how strong their forces are.
Rolled 24, 79 = 103 (2d100)
>>46530408
Name: Mnguni Tshivhumbe
Culture: Middle Africa
Fluff: Mnguni, leader of the great Bantu people, comes to bring the Bantu to glory or eternal afterlife in battle against the Infidels and support the muslim brothers.
Religion: Sunni Convert
Colour: Black
Transit: A European regiment in heavy armor and wagon train can march 30 miles in a day before they need rest.
A Bantu regiment can run 50 miles in a day, and fight at a battle at the end of it.
Military: 2224 rabble, 3 Mounted
Bonuses: [We Will Be Sultans] Taught of their manifest destiny by muslim imams, the tribal warriors of middle africa are powerful and relentless warriors - but lack much by way of equipment. Acquiring trained troops is harder for them, but their rabble is more effective.
1. Train Foraging. Praise be Allah in the stars, we are here. The land is bountiful and green again, just as in home, and the game here is familiar. They have the Antellope, but in a different form. They have the goat and the lion. But there are also new animals here I have not seen. Bears and wolves. Allah provides, we must simply hunt and we shall never go hungry.
2. We approach the border to the land of the infidel. Send our mounted camel riders to the forts and towns and see if any moorish armies march ahead of us. We can find a Moorsih army and bring them our spears and attack in great force as allies
Rolled 47, 32 = 79 (2d100)
>>46530432
Name: Lord Otto von Saxon
Culture: Holy Roman Empire; Saxony
Fluff: A mid-ranking knight of the Knights Hospitaller, finding himself leading a small band of like-minded cavalrymen, Otto was purportedly sent in order to oversee the progress of his peers, as well as ferry a large surplus of supplies to both his fellow crusaders and any bereaved locals. Taking his responsibilities seriously, he and his men believe in fighting with a strange code of honor, defending the weak and innocent from harm, even extending some mercy to pagans and the misguided heretics. After all, are not all equal under God's eyes?
Religion: Catholic
Colour: Battleship Gray
Transit: Horseback, alongside wagons
Military: 76 mounted, 220 men at arms
Bonuses: [Warrior of God] +10 to combat rolls against religious enemies. -10 to combat rolls against fellow Christians and civilised Pagans.
1.) ...
According to our orders, if I am reading them correctly, we are to be dropping off supplies in this settlement named "Zaragoza"? Well then, we shall not dilly-dally any further: we'll be lucky if we don't arrive late from that earlier bout of poor luck!
2.) Some last minute surplus gathering shall be conducted along the way, grabbing extra foods and medical supplies; perhaps negotiating for some extra wagons, and maybe building materials as well. Whomever is waiting on us will surely be grateful for these provisions.
Rolled 13, 55 = 68 (2d100)
>>46530408
Name: Prince Florian of Antalya
Culture: Antalyan
Fluff: During the first crusade James of Scotland conquered the southern shores of Anatolia and took the city of Antalya as his seat of power. Being blocked in by the Byzantine empire by land the nation focused inward, and partially thanks to the tolerance of King James, became a center of the sciences and arts.
Florian is the third prince of Antalya, and as such doesnt expect to inherit much from his father. As such he set off with some me to join the reconquista to claim some land for Antalya and himself.
Religion: Orthodox
Colour: Blue
Transit: Sail
Military: 75 mounted, 300 men at arms, 410 rabble.
Bonuses: [Antalyan Prince] Raised in a land of peace and progress, Florian gets +5 on literally anything that does not involve war or soldiers.
1. Give the guard the option of fighting for me or returning to their families peacefully.
2. Set about fixing any damages that might have been done during the assault. +5
Rolled 13, 32 = 45 (2d100)
>>46530669
Rolled 97, 87 = 184 (2d100)
>>46530408
Name: Konstantinos Ibericos
Culture: Byzantine Greek
Fluff: Konstantinos' father served in the Thracesion Theme as a permanent cavalry officer, having been swept into the crusade for a short while at it's height, serving in the retinue of an Italian merchant. Konstantinos was naturally swept into this, and he grew up as the son of a rather confused Byzantine mercenary. He has, through poor luck, grown up in the assorted military camps of the Mediterranean and Levant. As the heir to his father's estate in Thrace, he returned to serve in the military of the empire for a short time, being eventually granted commission to lead a small expedition of theme men to Iberia to fight in their crusade,ostensibly as the Catholics had fought in the Crusade of the Byzantines. This situation has led to him traveling across the Mediterranean in a small Byzantine vessel with a small crew of sailors and some barely trained theme soldiers, not fit for the Tagmata, but not landed enough to serve in the upper class of the Themes.
Religion: Byzantine Orthodox, under the Patriarch of Antioch.
Colour: Purple, if it's available.
Transit: By ship, from Constantinople. The ship was not fitted with Greek fire, more suited to transporting grain.
Military: 50 mounted, 200 men at arms, 500 rabble.
Bonuses: [A Hand for a Hand] A loyal servant adherent to the Orthodox faith as preached by the Matriarch of Antioch, Konstantinos holds that the Catholics ought to be repaid for their assistance in saving the Empire. This endears him to them, even if they consider their faith borderline heretical. +10 diplomacy with Catholic nations.
1. Fight off the weakened Islamic forces.
2. Take control of the island's population, taking in converts and suchlike.
>>46530420
Your men struggle to focus on their training, especially with such a massive influx of green recruits - but some learn how to hold a sword properly, at least.
+18 men at arms, +682 rabble
>>46530484
Progress is slow, preparations are problematic - but you are almost ready to host your tournament. (2/3)
With Crusader forces drawing closer, however, your trading partners are becoming more reluctant to do business.
+1 [Chest of Wealth]
>>46530502
The training is rigorous, and you whip the vast majority of your men into shape - but with the focus on training, they have barely any time to build ships, and that project founders.
+360 men at arms, -360 rabble
>>46530521
After months of vicious struggle, your men at last overpower the defender of the island, pushing them back!
>>46530536
Some locals follow along for the siege, enamoured with the idea of a victory provided by a hero from such a stories lineage.
+280 rabble
>>46530539
Your scouts report back having seen a town practically ungarrisoned to the south-west. They capitalised upon the situation and took it after a short ranged skirmish with the few men on the walls - and it proves a safer location in which to train your men.
+105 men at arms, -105 rabble
>>46530560
You make a start procuring new ships, but alas - the shipyard needs so much wood to be completed, it could take much longer even from now. At least the project is begun, and a few of the men manage to advance themselves in the temporary peace.
+14 men at arms, -14 rabble
>>46530566
Even with the bureaucracy at your beck and call, you get the sense that it will take even more effort to establish your rule over this place as an autonomous province - but you can tell that it's definitely achievable.
>>46530587
You make it a short distance, but the looting makes it slower, especially as you take the time to recruit as you go.
+105 men at arms
-20 rabble
>>46530613
You gather up talented artisans on your march.
>>46531693
>>46530614
The word of God does indeed seem to be with you. You even pick up several hundred peasants fleeing "mistreatment" at the hands of their Crusading Saxon Lord.
Of course, everything goes to hell when a local Templar chapter house catches wind of your activities, sallying forth in heavy plate and mail and putting your largely unarmed and unarmoured followers to the sword in the name of "Protecting the property of local authorities" - how dare they slay fellow Christians?!
-1 mounted, -3 men at arms, -760 rabble
>>46530669
>>46531070
You receive blank looks when you ask after crossbowmen, but when you investigate the strength of the local lords, you find it lacking. No wonder the northern infidels see this place as an easy target!
>>46530732
Though your men have a hard time finding much by the way of game or berries, you head north at speed to where the locals say the majority of the christian infidels are gathering. It shames you to admit it, but it seems none of your moorish allies are ready to face them! Pitiful. You recruit some of the more able-bodied lads from nearby and instruct them in your tribe's ways of war.
+211 rabble
>>46530737
You take a brief moment to gather more supplies before embarking on the long march south towards Zaragoza and the crusading armies.
>>46530975
The guard choose to return to their families peacefully. When people go to check on them, the majority are gone, along with their relatives.
The men, having taken the city with scarcely a worry, set about adding small, personalised touches to the defences - making it generally more comfortable, more shaded, more defensible.
>>46531101
You drive the weakened Islamic defenders into the sea, and take the island with such ease that it's a matter of simply crossing the straight to take the other. The island's population is cowed by your brilliance, and many convert to join your forces.
+423 rabble
>>46531717
>>46530491
>>46530536
>>46530613
The three of you continue on your way, meeting when Zaragoza is within a short march from your position. You are come upon by a knight of the Hospitallers >>46530737 He bears much-appreciated supplies and provisions for your soldiers.
Each of you gain +1 [Chest of Wealth] from being well-provisioned.
Rolled 73, 54 = 127 (2d100)
>>46531693
>Name: Ulfric
>Culture: East Rome
>Fluff: the son of a Varagian guard and a maid Ulfric served under his father for a time in the Guard before buying an officers title in the royal army. With his new command he has been ordered to secure the western Mediterrian isles for the empire.
>Religion:Pagan
>Colour: Black
>Transit: Ulfric travels by sea with a small detachment of the Imperial fleet
>Military: 50 mounted, 475 men at arms, 225 rabble.
>Bonuses: [Son of Varangia] The varagians are known as vicious and capable warriors, famously favoured by Eastern Emperors as bodyguards. +10 to combat when attacking.
1 Finish the fight and claim these lands for the Empire.
2. Recruit from the local population. Barring Muslims
Rolled 70, 67 = 137 (2d100)
>>46531693
>>Name: Tariq Abd al-Aziz
>>Culture: Andalusian, from Córdoba
>>Fluff: Tariq's ancestors boast a proud history of service to Islam and to al-Andalus. His family claim service to the Ummayad dynasty and all it's successors, extending from before 718 and the conquest of al-Andalus from the Catholic Visigoths. From birth, Tariq has trained in the art of strategy and war, and honed a reputation as a soldier of merit and student of Islam, despite his youth. He aspires to defend his home, despite any cost, and to repel any would be invaders with extreme prejudice. He seeks to make his ancestors proud and win favor as a valiant and loyal servant to his liege, the Emir of Cordoba. With his youth, however, comes a thirst for glory that has yet to be properly sated.
>>Religion: Sunni Islam
>>Colour: Dark Green
>>Transit: Located in CórdobaMilitary: 50 mounted, 218 men at arms, 1182 rabble.
Bonuses: [A Worthy Vassal] As vassals of Cordoba, Tariq and his family can occasionally act with the authority of their liege, but may have tasks required of them in exchange.
1. Train Men at arms
2. Recruit Rabble
Rolled 78, 13 = 91 (2d100)
>>46531693
Name: Philippe Pelletier
Culture: French with some Iberian Heritage
Fluff: Being the young 3rd son of a minor french nobleman, Phillippe has little to look forwards to in way of inheritance. Looking to make a name for himself, he looks south towards the crusade as a means to acquire land and glory. Trained to be a proper french knight, he is skilled with sword lance and riding. With the blessing of his father him and a small retainer set out to drum up support in the french countryside as they make their way to Iberia
Religion: Catholic
Colour: Yellow
Transit: Currently marching south along the west coast of france
Military: 87 mounted, 561 men at arms, 245 rabble.
Bonuses: [Fleur de Chevalerie] French Knights are famous across europe for being romantic heroes, unstoppable on the charge - one was even crowned King of Jerusalem - and Pillippe is counted among this historic number. His mounted troops are scarily effective on flat ground.
This town will do nicely as a foothold, we shall use this as our mustering grounds. Once I capture a major city I might be able to request support from some more powerful nobles
1. Have my men scout and loot the surrounding countryside, taking special care to not bring harm to the catholic population
2. Attempt to recruit more troops from the local catholic population
Rolled 45, 52 = 97 (2d100)
>>46531717
Name: Ungodala
Culture: Iberia
Fluff: Raised from birth to fight for his home, Ungodala has recieved permission to protect it
Religion: lberian
Colour: Purple
Transit: March
Military: 50 mounted, 592 men at arms, 358 rabble.
Bonuses: [Blessed Protector] A native Sunni muslim, Ungodala knows how to navigate and protect his home. He receives +5 to defensive combat and can travel further.
1,2. Go to the nearest city, go to its barracks, and begin training its men for war. Especially train them in defensuve warfare!
Rolled 83, 5 = 88 (2d100)
>>46531693
Name: Imaad ibin'Nassor
Culture: Fatimid Caliphate
Fluff: The First Crusades were remembered as a triumph, not only in Europe, but in Egypt as well. Through faith, perseverance, and the cunning of the Caliph's most trusted general, Nassor ibin'Akil, the Fatimids conquered Sinai, beat back numerous Crusader incursions, and took Mecca without a single drop of blood. Now, in the thirty years since, Nassor's third son-- third of five-- has proven himself a competent and capable general. Like father, like son, they say, and so the Caliph has given Imaad a very important task: safeguard the Western borders of the Caliphate. Break any resistance. Prove that his family line are loyal warriors all.
Religion: Shia Islam
Colour: Dark Blue.
Transit: Arrived by horse to the Caliphate's western border.
Forces: 50 mounted, 560 MaA, 140 rabble
Holdings: Crude Port(?)
Bonuses: [My father, and his father, and...] A legacy of brave service has endeared you to the Shia Caliph. +10 to rolls asking for support... within reason.
Imaad frowned, rubbing at his head as the news of absolute failure in the realm of ship-building.
"We will not need ships just yet-- focus on the port, for now, yes?"
1. Build up the port some more.
2. Expand patrols and supply lines westward. In case of a ground attack, the less ground we have to cover to get to the front, the better. (expand)
Rolled 85, 43 = 128 (2d100)
>>46531693
Name: Prince Ludovic of Jerusalem
Culture: French. Prince of Jerusalem.
Fluff: The son of a son of a legend. Ludovic travels from God's Kingdom at the age of eighteen with a contingent of the terrifying elite Templar Knights and a banner that inspires awe across the Christian world. A second child, Ludovic is young, ambitious, and ruthless. The Iron steps of the Templars do not stop in Jerusalem. Not in France. Not until the ends of the earth. Not until they win.
Religion: Catholic.
Colour: RED AS MY GRANDFATHER
Transit: Sailed.
Military: 75 mounted, 300 men at arms, 530 rabble.
Important Items: [1 Chest of Wealth]
Bonuses: [Prince of Jerusalem] Ludovic's family is widely regarded as a line of heroes across Christendom. Ludovic himself is stubborn and ruthless, and his troops tend not to break easily.
1/2: Ludvig takes control over the central planning of the military commandership against Zaragoza.
We have surprise and ferocity as our primary working elements - the men of Zaragoza do not know of our arrival as of yet, or the strength of our armies, or that of Christendom itself. While Zaragoza is well-fortified, it is not so well-done as the central cities of Iberia, and to mow them down quickly will be a simple task. First, a small, elite group of men disguised as peasants are to move into the city and make their way to the central gates, where they should be able to slaughter the single guard or two with ease. With the gatehouses in our control, our troops can flood Zaragoza and completely exterminate their scattered forces before any true offensive can be mounted. Any group that gets together will be easily run down.
>>46530737
A MESSAGE FROM PRINCE LUDVIG, DELIVERED BY FOOTMAN:
'Your men's support in taking this town would be tremendously appreciated, Lord Otto. Our victory is already all but certain, but we could always use more men for the cause of Christendom. Zaragoza is a city full of riches and sacarens, after all.'
- Prince Ludvig
Rolled 12, 98 = 110 (2d100)
>>46531717
Name: Prince Florian of Antalya
Culture: Antalyan
Fluff: During the first crusade James of Scotland conquered the southern shores of Anatolia and took the city of Antalya as his seat of power. Being blocked in by the Byzantine empire by land the nation focused inward, and partially thanks to the tolerance of King James, became a center of the sciences and arts.
Florian is the third prince of Antalya, and as such doesnt expect to inherit much from his father. As such he set off with some me to join the reconquista to claim some land for Antalya and himself.
Religion: Orthodox
Colour: Blue
Transit: Sail
Military: 75 mounted, 300 men at arms, 410 rabble.
Holdings: Valencia {Port City}
Bonuses: [Antalyan Prince] Raised in a land of peace and progress, Florian gets +5 on literally anything that does not involve war or soldiers.
1. Get me a account of all the important buildings in the city and a census of the people. +5
2. Begin recruiting more people for the army.
Rolled 73, 92 = 165 (2d100)
Name: Jacob
Culture: Iberian Jew
Fluff: Belives that the christians will persecute the jews living in spain so he fights for his people
Religion: Jewish
Color: red
Transit: Lives here
Military: 50 mounted, 338 men at arms, 362 rabble.
Bonuses: [Oy vey!] Being of uncertain loyalties, Jacob can probably get along with either side in this conflict - but is beloved by neither.
1continue working on autonomy
2 levy some recruits
>>46531930
Cont.
>>46530491
Crispinus is to oversee the safe management and oversight of the city's entrance, while Matthew >>46530613 will be controlling the entirety of our support corps, keeping the city firmly in our grasp and eliminating any problems with our plan before they arrive - any contingencies.
>>46531693
1. Keep going with tournament prep. (2/3)
2. Seek new business contacts in the Muslim world. Do business.
Name: Azka'hail abu-Dakar
Culture: Moorish
Fluff: Mercenary Captain, seeks peace for these lands and knows the Catholic monarchs will never allow it.
Religion: Sunni
Colour: Royal Purple
Military: 112 mounted, 466 men at arms, 526 rabble.
Bonuses: [Is it really so much to Azk?] As a man whose main concern is to fight for peace, Azka'hail gets a bonus of +5 to defensive combat rolls and +5 to diplomacy when negotiating truces.
+1 [Chest of Wealth]
Rolled 27, 81 = 108 (2d100)
>>46531693
Name: John De Hampton
Culture: Anglo-Norman
Fluff: Like many English second sons he will not inherit land from his father and so must go out into the world to take his own. He was educated and armed as befitting any knight, although oddly he can read too. He has spent time in Ireland and Wales fighting against the tribal Celts and their unsymmetrical style of warfare. Rumour has it he slew his own cousin when challenged for the hand of a rich land owner and now seeks penance through the blood of infidels.
Religion: Catholic
Colour: Red and white
Transit: Boat in to Asturias, then by foot into the marcher territories of western Christian held Spain
Military: 50 mounted, 305 men at arms, 480 rabble.
Bonuses: [Knight Repentant] Undertaking the crusade to redeem himself of his martial sins, John has a history of prevailing in honour duels, and receives +10 in personal combat
Actions:
1. Continue on to Lisbon, recruiting locals and looting heathens in preparation to take the city
2. If Lisbon is reached, attempt to sneak men into the city disguised as refugees or locals. These men will then seize a gate and allow the rest in. Failing that, siege
If I'm NOT near Lisbon then continue to train rabble into MAA
Rolled 8, 2 = 10 (2d100)
>>46531693
>Name: Philaretos Photius
>Culture: Greek/Imperial with Visigothic Heritage
>Fluff: Philaretos is the son of Uriel Photius, who was an agent of the Emperor in the early Crusade of the East. He was recalled due to the Byzantine politics of the Capital. Uriel eventually married a Visigothic noblewoman whose family fled Spain in the more recent conquests. With the Emperor taking a renewed interest in the West, the Photius family has sent Philaretos, trained for war and administration, to Spain to assist Christendom in reclaiming Hispania - under the banner of the Empire, of course.
>Religion: Orthodox
>Colour: Blue and Gold if possible
>Transit: Sailed.
Military: 50 mounted, 334 men at arms, 576 rabble.
Resources: 3 [Chests of Wealth]
Bonuses: [Byzantine Clerk] Trained for wartime administration, Philaretos can easily establish supply lines, baggage trains and other logistics for new troops, making recruitment easier. +5 to recruitment.
Territory:
+Minorca (Fully Controlled),
++Minorcan Forifications [almost peerless defensive emplacement][well garrisoned,local,loyal]
++Minorcan Shipyard(incomplete)
1. We need those ships. Keep at it!
2. Send word back home. See if we cannot recuit more soldiers, or convince the Emperor to send us more supplies.
>>46531717
Name: Mattew Fores
Culture: Holy Roman Empire
Fluff: Second son of a German family, Matthew trained for years with the bow from horseback. An expert marksman on foot or horse, Matthew won a small bit of fame in a tourney held by the Duke of Masovia. His three signature arrows, forest green shafts with swan fletchings, managed to strike the center ring from 400 yards. Not particularly suited for melee combat, due to his short statue, Matthew fights with a short sword and saxe only when absolutely necessary. Otherwise, his bow is his primary weapon. The ability to fire multiple shafts in the span of seconds has been engrained through years of practice, each one carrying a man's life in it's barbed steel head.
The call for the reconquest of the Iberian peninsula struck the young man hard, and with his brother set to inherit what little holdings the family owns, there was nothing to hold Matthew back. Astride his faithful horse Connam, with his bow and wits as armaments, Matthew set off to free the Holy Land.
Religion: Catholic
Colour: Purple
Transit: Riding my trusty steed Connam
Inventory: [Chest of Wealth]
Military: 50 mounted, 529 men at arms, 391 rabble
Bonuses: [Robin Who?] Mattew is a consummate archer, and is deadly effective when able to engage at range and direct his men to do likewise. When fighting alongside an ally willing to absorb the brunt of the melee fighting, Mattew gets +10 in battle - and his ally gets +5
1&2)Set my artisans to work making siege weaponry. We shall crush the walls and city gates, be it with rams, catapults, or towers. Somehow, we shall pass their walls
>>46532078
consul pl0s, you donut even heff workshop yet
>>46531930
>>46531959
Rolled 92, 97 = 189 (2d100)
>>46532078
now with dice
>>46531741
Name: Crispinus Tullus Scruffitius
Culture: Tripoli (of polish/lebanese descent)
Fluff: http://pastebin.com/GZmvmxHx
Religion: Catholic
Colour: Orange - the Classic Color
Transit: Marching Southwest from Southern Germany
Military: 50 mounted, 470 men at arms, 501 rabble.
Bonuses: [Pauper Prince] An ambitious young man denied his birthright and trained for warfare by holy men, Crispinus gets +5 to all combat rolls.
1 Chest of Wealth
1/2. This is it, this is my moment. Crispinus turns to Ludovic. "Here we are, born to be kings! Princes of the universe!" he puts his arm around the Grandson of his father's closest ally "FIGHTING TO SURVIVE IN A WAR WITH THE DARKEST POWER!" He turns to the city, his voice like a signal horn, loud and clear amidst the day's noise "And here we are, We're the princes of the universe, Here we belong, Fighting for survival!" He turns to the guardsmen looking from the city walls "We've come to be the rulers of your world!"
Rolled 57, 16 = 73 (2d100)
>>46532135
My men are to prepare to storm the gate on the solidified command of our fellow lords, we shall crush them utterly.
>>46531930
= 90, 47 (+ fluff bonuses)
>>46532103
= 100, 100
>>46532156
= 62, 21 (+ fluff bonuses)
Rolled 14, 14 = 28 (2d100)
>>46531717
Name: Mnguni Tshivhumbe
Culture: Middle Africa
Fluff: Mnguni, leader of the great Bantu people, comes to bring the Bantu to glory or eternal afterlife in battle against the Infidels and support the muslim brothers.
Religion: Sunni Convert
Colour: Black
Transit: A European regiment in heavy armor and wagon train can march 30 miles in a day before they need rest.
A Bantu regiment can run 50 miles in a day, and fight at a battle at the end of it.
Military: 2435 rabble, 3 Mounted
Bonuses: [We Will Be Sultans] Taught of their manifest destiny by muslim imams, the tribal warriors of middle africa are powerful and relentless warriors - but lack much by way of equipment. Acquiring trained troops is harder for them, but their rabble is more effective.
1+2. Head west and start raiding the countryside. This shall be just as we did in Africa, swarm and take the villages, burn the huts down, kill the men, and take the women to breed more warriors. We shall always be on the move, never still, and soon we shall bring this infidel tribe to ruin.
I have heard that west of where we are another Muslim warband has set up camp. We shall carve out a warpath to them and meet these warriors and see if they are braver warriors than these.
If we devastate the enemy, our Moorish allies will be encouraged to fight.
Rolled 1, 27 = 28 (2d100)
>>46531717
>>46531930
Lord Otto Von Saxon stands before you, behind him a detachment of soldiers; though small in number, they all have the look of professionals: there were no common rabble among their ranks.
He briefly dismounted, visibly clasping a rosary in hand. "My directive was to oversee this crusade of yours, Noble Prince Ludovic. I shall see what I can do to ensure our success among those of a wicked heart. Christ be with you, and with your men."
Name: Lord Otto von Saxon
Culture: Holy Roman Empire; Saxony
Fluff: A mid-ranking knight of the Knights Hospitaller, finding himself leading a small band of like-minded cavalrymen, Otto was purportedly sent in order to oversee the progress of his peers, as well as ferry a large surplus of supplies to both his fellow crusaders and any bereaved locals. Taking his responsibilities seriously, he and his men believe in fighting with a strange code of honor, defending the weak and innocent from harm, even extending some mercy to pagans and the misguided heretics. After all, are not all equal under God's eyes?
Religion: Catholic
Colour: Battleship Gray
Transit: Horseback, alongside wagons
Military: 76 mounted, 220 men at arms
Important Items: [1 Chest of Wealth]
Bonuses: [Warrior of God] +10 to combat rolls against religious enemies. -10 to combat rolls against fellow Christians and civilised Pagans.
1.) Otto and his Hospitallers do what they do best and set up a field hospital to tend to the wounded that will surely accumulate over the course of this siege. Wagons are dismounted and converted to tends, and the building supplies are put to use in constructing serviceable structures.
2.) For offensive actions, the knights and mounted warriors are sent on reconnaissance, picking out weakly guarded areas and other vulnerbilities and relaying them back to the main crusaders force. Afterwards, they join up with the main body of crusaders, aiding in the followup as reinforcements after the initial breakthrough.
>>46532207
>>46532435
= s-six and 32
please show mercy
>>46532435
>>46532466
Correction: sixteen and 42
Pretty good rolls! :)
>>46532435
Rolled 89, 77 = 166 (2d100)
>>46531979
If you don't roll, you get shitty GM rolls.
Rolled 88, 38 = 126 (2d100)
Name: Pierre the "Most Pure"
Culture: Toulousian {French}
Fluff: Pierre Lautremont is a local preacher of the Cathar Christian sect. During the persecution, his followers were largely destroyed with Pierre managing to escape and hide. With the coming of the crusade, Pierre has found his chance to rally the masses to his banner: he has promised them revenge, land, and salvation. His charisma is striking.
Religion: Cathar [Christian Heretic]
Colour: Blue
Transit: Local
Military: 24 mounted, 97 men at arms, 240 rabble.
Bonuses: [Absolutely Heretical] He may be a heretic, but his rhetoric is compelling. +5 to recruitment rolls.
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Actions
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1.2. Pierre starts screaming about how the pain visited upon his troupe is actually god's judgement. The persecution provides him ample material to rally support. Soon he has the mob rallied to him, and angry. [Recruitment :+5]
>>46532589
Oh sorry my mistake. Nice rolls thou bruh ;3
>>46531784
The last of Mallorca is at last subdued in the name of the Eastern Empire, and liberated christians flock to you.
+260 rabble
>>46531802
Men have spears and shields thrust into their hands, they are dilled in ranks, disciplined and worked until they seem strong enough to take the fight to the enemies of Allah.
+135 men at arms
+166 rabble
>>46531846
Your men loot the countryside, taking silver, gold, gems and precious items from those whho do not profess a catholic faith. You are in luck, as a lot of the nearby ground seems to be plains - but you draw few recruits.
+3 [Chest of Wealth]
>>46531864
You train the men personally, visiting their barracks to encourage them to do their best!
+198 men at arms, -198 rabble
>>46531922
You now have a significant port, and a few usable ships rest at harbour - but efforts to push west into Sunni territory are cut short with brutal efficiency.
>>46531934
The census is a daunting, almost impossible project - but it's made a lot easier to take the names and occupations of a large portion of the adult male population when they report to find a place in your army.
+690 rabble
>>46531938
At last, you wrest control from the local authorities and can call yourself a ruler in your own right.
The best thing? It's entirely legal.
Hundreds of men are levied into your forces from your newly acquired land.
+620 rabble
>>46532011
You make your way south to the distant city of Lisbon, your men taking up position a short dash from the walls. A few infiltrators sneak inside - and they are ready for your order.
>>46532068
The less said about events this month, the better. Men are sworn to silence over it.
>>46533310
>>46532300
Unfortunately, your journey through the countryside - while fun - achieves little except entertaining the men as you head west.
>>46532594
A fuming, angry man with a reason to take his vengeance upon the world makes for a true firebrand, and in the wake of this travesty, thousands flock to hear you spew vitriol against the established order.
+66 men at arms, +666 rabble
>>46531979
>>46532589
Your tournament is ready, and it draws warriors from across the New Caliphate, who compete for the honour of joining your forces. At the end of the week-long competition, one warrior stands ultimately triumphant: an agile leatherbound combatant who favours a long spear.
They take their winnings and make you an offer - to goin you if you will give them three great chests of silver.
As it happens, you have acquired three such chests from your recent trading - but you will have to choose between them.
+45 mounted, +176 men at arms
AND EITHER
[Champion of Spear] You may nominate this champion to fight for you in personal combat, with a bonus.
OR
+3 [Chests of Wealth]
>>46533333
>>46531930
>>46531959
>>46532078
>>46532103
>>46532135
>>46532156
As you conquer the city of Zaragoza, it's strange.
You were all expecting some form of resistance. But when you arrive, there are no sentries, no guardsmen, no saracen soldiers. The walls are bare.
The gates are child's play, and you secure the city in a matter of an hour - or even less.
But just as you were pondering this strange turn of events, one of the keen-eyes archers from Mattew's troupe cries out what it is - hearing reports of your massive combined forces bearing down upon them, the mohammedan garrison pulled away rather than sell their lives pointlessly - only to attack your camp!
>>46532435
Otto stands before his men, pleased at the field hospital they have constructed. Their depleted forces may not be enough to form a major part of the assault, but they can at least perform the true function of their holy order.
There goes up a ragged cheer when the Hospitallers spot that the other Crusaders made it over the walls with what looks like minimal resistance - but soon that jubilation turns to horror, as from cover nearby, closer to the field hospital than the city of Zaragoza emerges the full force of their garrison, sallying forth to do as much damage as they can, presumably before retreating back into deeper Iberia to gather reinforcements.
They outnumber him by hundreds. Perhaps even thousands - all bearing down as the hospitallers stand about unarmed, garbed in healer's vestments.
Is this the end? Lord Above, what has his servant done to desrve such an ignominious fate?
That is the thought that flashes through Otto's head in the face of the moslem charge, and he prepares himself to account for his sins alongside his men.
>>46533350
>>46531930
>>46531959
>>46532078
>>46532103
>>46532135
>>46532156
>>46532435
- until the charging force is scattered by a hail of arrows.
Off in the distance, he can see that German youth Mattew marshalling his bowmen. They aim high across an impossible distance, aim and loose. Despite the incredible range, their missiles fall true.
Slowed by this surprise, Otto's attackers stumble and panic. They start to turn this way and that, and the momentum goes all out of them.
And then comes the thunder of hooves. Prince Ludovic of Jerusalem atop his valiant steed bears straight down into the panicking foe, scattering them to the winds as he's flanked by his brave knights.
On the walls holding the city for Christendom stand Crispinus' troops.
And that day, Otto learned what it's like to witness a miracle.
>>46533379
That's all for tonight folks, feel free to update your sheets and reply with them for the archive and record-keeping.
Hope you enjoyed youselves.
Next game should be next Thursday, maybe a slightly earlier start - but not by much.
Thanks for playing.
Name: Jacob
Culture: Iberian Jew
Fluff: Belives that the christians will persecute the jews living in spain so he fights for his people
Religion: Jewish
Color: red
Transit: Lives here
military: 116'mounted, 472 men at arms, 858 rabble.
Bonuses: [Oy vey!] Being of uncertain loyalties, Jacob can probably get along with either side in this conflict - but is beloved by neither.
1 make an amary fit for the province of jewtopia >train rabble
2 levy taxes
>>46533410
Name: Philippe Pelletier
Culture: French with some Iberian Heritage
Fluff: Being the young 3rd son of a minor french nobleman, Phillippe has little to look forwards to in way of inheritance. Looking to make a name for himself, he looks south towards the crusade as a means to acquire land and glory. Trained to be a proper french knight, he is skilled with sword lance and riding. With the blessing of his father him and a small retainer set out to drum up support in the french countryside as they make their way to Iberia
Religion: Catholic
Colour: Yellow
Transit: Currently marching
Military: 87 mounted, 561 men at arms, 245 rabble.
Resources: 3 Chests of wealth
Bonuses: [Fleur de Chevalerie] French Knights are famous across europe for being romantic heroes, unstoppable on the charge - one was even crowned King of Jerusalem - and Pillippe is counted among this historic number. His mounted troops are scarily effective on flat ground.
Soon will come the time for us to make a move on major population centers, once I truely make a name for myself I will be able to rally support from major french lords
Rolled 79, 48 = 127 (2d100)
>>46533333
>Select the Champion of Spear.
1. Extend my offer of protection to more adjacent Sunni lords, leveraging the high-profile tournament as a sign of my preparedness for war with these champions and general prestige.
2. Convert more rabble to Men-at-Arms.
Name: Azka'hail abu-Dakar
Culture: Moorish
Fluff: Mercenary Captain, seeks peace for these lands and knows the Catholic monarchs will never allow it.
Religion: Sunni
Colour: Royal Purple
Military: 157 mounted, 642 men at arms, 526 rabble.
Bonuses: [Is it really so much to Azk?] As a man whose main concern is to fight for peace, Azka'hail gets a bonus of +5 to defensive combat rolls and +5 to diplomacy when negotiating truces.
+1 [Chest of Wealth]
>>46533350
>>46533379
>>46533410
I'm getting flashbacks of a certain city in Hebrew land.
ONWARDS MARCHES THE CRUSADE
>>46533310
Name: Tariq Abd al-Aziz
Culture: Andalusian, from Córdoba
Fluff: Tariq's ancestors boast a proud history of service to Islam and to al-Andalus. His family claim service to the Ummayad dynasty and all it's successors, extending from before 718 and the conquest of al-Andalus from the Catholic Visigoths. From birth, Tariq has trained in the art of strategy and war, and honed a reputation as a soldier of merit and student of Islam, despite his youth. He aspires to defend his home, despite any cost, and to repel any would be invaders with extreme prejudice. He seeks to make his ancestors proud and win favor as a valiant and loyal servant to his liege, the Emir of Cordoba. With his youth, however, comes a thirst for glory that has yet to be properly sated.
Religion: Sunni Islam
Colour: Dark Green
Transit: Located in Córdoba
Military: 50 mounted, 333 men at arms, 1348 rabble.
Bonuses: [A Worthy Vassal] As vassals of Cordoba, Tariq and his family can occasionally act with the authority of their liege, but may have tasks required of them in exchange.
Name: Pierre the "Most Pure"
Culture: Toulousian {French}
Fluff: Pierre Lautremont is a local preacher of the Cathar Christian sect. During the persecution, his followers were largely destroyed with Pierre managing to escape and hide. With the coming of the crusade, Pierre has found his chance to rally the masses to his banner: he has promised them revenge, land, and salvation. His charisma is striking.
Religion: Cathar [Christian Heretic]
Colour: Blue
Transit: Local
Military: 24 mounted, 163 men at arms, 906 rabble.
Bonuses: [Absolutely Heretical] He may be a heretic, but his rhetoric is compelling. +5 to recruitment rolls.
Name: Lord Otto von Saxon
Culture: Holy Roman Empire; Saxony
Fluff: A mid-ranking knight of the Knights Hospitaller, finding himself leading a small band of like-minded cavalrymen, Otto was purportedly sent in order to oversee the progress of his peers, as well as ferry a large surplus of supplies to both his fellow crusaders and any bereaved locals. Taking his responsibilities seriously, he and his men believe in fighting with a strange code of honor, defending the weak and innocent from harm, even extending some mercy to pagans and the misguided heretics. After all, are not all equal under God's eyes?
Religion: Catholic
Colour: Battleship Gray
Transit: Horseback, alongside wagons
Military: 76 mounted, 220 men at arms
Important Items: [1 Chest of Wealth]
Bonuses: [Warrior of God] +10 to combat rolls against religious enemies. -10 to combat rolls against fellow Christians and civilised Pagans.
Name: Crispinus Tullus Scruffitius
Culture: Tripoli (of polish/lebanese descent)
Fluff: http://pastebin.com/GZmvmxHx
Religion: Catholic
Colour: Orange - the Classic Color
Transit: Marching Southwest from Southern Germany
Military: 50 mounted, 470 men at arms, 501 rabble.
Bonuses: [Pauper Prince] An ambitious young man denied his birthright and trained for warfare by holy men, Crispinus gets +5 to all combat rolls.
1 Chest of Wealth
"THE DAY IS WON!" Crispinus grabs his compatriots around the shoulders, pulling them close "Those that missed this shall be truly envious, of these great deeds we've accomplished here, This day shall gentle their condition;
And gentlemen in France now a-bed
Shall think themselves accurs'd they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks That fought with us upon St. Rodger's Day! "
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>Name: Philaretos Photius
>Culture: Greek/Imperial with Visigothic Heritage
>Fluff: Philaretos is the son of Uriel Photius, who was an agent of the Emperor in the early Crusade of the East. He was recalled due to the Byzantine politics of the Capital. Uriel eventually married a Visigothic noblewoman whose family fled Spain in the more recent conquests. With the Emperor taking a renewed interest in the West, the Photius family has sent Philaretos, trained for war and administration, to Spain to assist Christendom in reclaiming Hispania - under the banner of the Empire, of course.
>Religion: Orthodox
>Colour: Blue and Gold if possible
>Transit: Sailed.
Military: 50 mounted, 334 men at arms, 576 rabble.
Resources: 3 [Chests of Wealth]
Bonuses: [Byzantine Clerk] Trained for wartime administration, Philaretos can easily establish supply lines, baggage trains and other logistics for new troops, making recruitment easier. +5 to recruitment.
Territory:
+Minorca (Fully Controlled),
++Minorcan Forifications [almost peerless defensive emplacement][well garrisoned,local,loyal]
++Minorcan Shipyard(incomplete)
Name: Konstantinos Ibericos
Culture: Byzantine Greek
Fluff: Konstantinos' father served in the Thracesion Theme as a permanent cavalry officer, having been swept into the crusade for a short while at it's height, serving in the retinue of an Italian merchant. Konstantinos was naturally swept into this, and he grew up as the son of a rather confused Byzantine mercenary. He has, through poor luck, grown up in the assorted military camps of the Mediterranean and Levant. As the heir to his father's estate in Thrace, he returned to serve in the military of the empire for a short time, being eventually granted commission to lead a small expedition of theme men to Iberia to fight in their crusade,ostensibly as the Catholics had fought in the Crusade of the Byzantines. This situation has led to him traveling across the Mediterranean in a small Byzantine vessel with a small crew of sailors and some barely trained theme soldiers, not fit for the Tagmata, but not landed enough to serve in the upper class of the Themes.
Religion: Byzantine Orthodox, under the Patriarch of Antioch.
Colour: Purple, if it's available.
Transit: By ship, from Constantinople. The ship was not fitted with Greek fire, more suited to transporting grain.
Military: 50 mounted, 200 men at arms, 1043 rabble.
Bonuses: [A Hand for a Hand] A loyal servant adherent to the Orthodox faith as preached by the Matriarch of Antioch, Konstantinos holds that the Catholics ought to be repaid for their assistance in saving the Empire. This endears him to them, even if they consider their faith borderline heretical. +10 diplomacy with Catholic nations.
Territory:
+Ibiza (Fully Controlled)
